This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the … wave of the Health and Retirement Study, the results show that the wage elasticity of informal care supply is negative and … larger in magnitude than has been found previously. The lower bound of this elasticity is estimated to be -1.8 for males and …

how the magnitude of the estimated elasticities varies depending on whether net or gross wages and income are used in the … estimation procedure, and quantify biases caused by using average instead of marginal tax rates. Finally, because marginal tax … changes in their own or spouses' wages. -- labour supply ; elasticities ; labour force participation ; taxes ; Canada …