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What effect does increasing the retirement age have on the employment rate of older women? : empirical evidence from retirement age hikes in Hungary during the 2000s
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2014
age do not seem to have such employment effect because increases in disability pension claims have counteracted them. …This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual …-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348302
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Impacts of informal caregiving on caregiver employment, health, and family
Bauer, Jan M.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487520
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Caregiving subsidies and spousal early retirement intentions
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022
Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for caregivers can influence individuals' early retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260028
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Informal Care and Labour Force Participation among Middle-Aged Women in Spain
Casado, David; García Gómez, Pilar; López Nicolás, … - 2007
Informal care is today the form of support most commonly used by those who need other people in order to carry out certain activities that are considered basic (eating, dressing, taking a shower, etc.), in Spain and in most other countries in the region. The possible labour opportunity costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225261
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Does Labor Force Participation Reduce Informal Caregiving?
He, Daifeng; McHenry, Peter - 2013
This paper examines the causal impact of labor force participation on informal caregiving. To address the endogeneity of labor force participation, we exploit local business cycles and instrument for individual labor force participation with state unemployment rates. Using data from the Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155760
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Is Working Longer in Jeopardy? Health and Labor Force Participation of Middle-Aged Europeans
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Ferrari, Irene; Pasini, Giacomo; … - 2020
time using the European Labor Force Survey. We do not find any evidence for falling or stagnating employment rates and thus … no correlation between health and employment trends. Health does not seem to be a main driver in the decision whether to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098821
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Older Women : Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2010
Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149612
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896
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The "demise of the caregiving daughter"? : gender employment gaps and the use of formal and informal care in Europe
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023
large gender disparities in employment rates, where having daughters also depresses the demand for formal care. In contrast … amidst the rise of female employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431394
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The "demise of the caregiving daughter"? : gender employment gaps and the use of formal and informal care in Europe
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023
large gender disparities in employment rates, where having daughters also depresses the demand for formal care. In contrast … amidst the rise of female employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014434299