Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data
利用调查数据与行政收入记录，追踪家庭照护者开始照护前后25年的就业轨迹，发现女性照护后收入与就业下降，而男性在劳动供给受冲击后才开始照护。
A significant share of the rapidly growing demand for long-term care is met by family members, many of whom also work, and family caregiving has been shown to affect labor market outcomes. We use survey responses about family caregiving roles linked to administrative earnings records to estimate the employment trajectories of family caregivers over a 25-year period around the reported start of a caregiving episode. These trajectories vary significantly by gender. Relative to a matched comparison group, caregiving precipitates a drop in both earnings and employment for women, while men enter caregiving only after experiencing significant labor supply disruptions.