Caregiving to Elderly Parents and Employment Status of European Mature Women
利用SHARE数据研究欧洲成年女儿对老年父母的非正式照料强度与就业状态的关系，发现南北欧差异显著，日常照料对就业的负面影响仅在南部国家明显。
We study the prevalence of informal caregiving to elderly parents by their mature daughters in Europe and the links between parental health, intense (daily) caregiving, and the employment status of daughters. We group data from SHARE into three country pools (North, Central, and South), which differ in the availability of public formal care services and female labor market attachment. There is a strong North-South gradient in the (positive) effect of parental ill health on the probability of daily caregiving. The loss of employment ascribable to daily informal caregiving seems negligible, except in southern countries. We use a time allocation model to provide a link to an empirical IV-treatment effects framework and to interpret our findings. © 2014 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology