"Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women's informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for...

I use the European Community Household Panel to analyse the relationship between labour force participation and informal care-giving to the elderly for a sample of midlife women across 10 European countries. The results show strong state dependence in the labour force participation of women for...

Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women's informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for...