on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the … implications for family life remain under investigated. The research findings also differ strongly among subgroups, although they …

This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy … are employed to separately estimate the value of family childcare and care of the elderly. The results show that, overall …, in Italy the number of people performing family care work is higher, also due to the larger population. Italians …

This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time … and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital … the index child's siblings are step children or biological children of the parent. Using data from the Health and …

adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life events include bereavement, severe illness in the family, and the …

collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …

The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … that business closures lead to worse health outcomes. We also find no evidence that biomarker health measures predict …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of …

. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) among elderly individuals. This survey is …, socioeconomic and health status. We find that being born during a recession or boom period significantly influences cognitive …

This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of … importance of including information on non-resident family members when studying how parent illness and elder care requirements …