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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the role of migrant care workers

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2020

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...

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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Four Latin American countries

Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020

We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...

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A comparative perspective on long-term care systems

Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2022

, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea. …

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Labour supply and informal care supply : the impacts of financial support for long-term elderly care

Hollingsworth, Bruce; Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo; … - 2017

We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...

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Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans

Almuhaisen, Abdulmohsen; Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; … - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between immigration enforcement and institutionalization rates of the elderly. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the Secure Communities (SC) immigration enforcement program across U.S. counties from 2008 through 2014, we show that SC led to a 0.26...

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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance

Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer, Björn - 2023

We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance scheme, informal elderly care has adverse and persistent...

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The growing gap of unmet need : assessing the demand for, and supply of, home-based support for older adults with disabilities in 31 countries

Qian, Yuting; Chen, Shanquan; Lin, Zhuoer; Yu, Zexuan; … - 2023

Providing support to older people with disabilities will increasingly challenge care systems in all countries. Accurately gauging the unmet need is a first step in response. Disability is commonly measured by documenting people's capacity to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and...

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Migration and the demographic shift

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review … the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We … subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, health and …

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Donating time to charity : not working for nothing

Aoki, Yu - 2014

. To identify the causal effect, I exploit the earthquake that occurred in midwestern Japan in 1995 as a natural experiment …

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How to combine the entry of young people in the labour market with the retention of older workers?

Eichhorst, Werner; Boeri, Tito; De Coen, An; Galasso, … - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both groups. The evidence collected shows that there is no...

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