Balancing Work and Care: How Workplace Factors Can Mitigate the Gendered Impacts of Caregiving
利用澳大利亚雇主-雇员匹配数据，研究工作场所环境如何影响父母因子女化疗产生的照护冲击，发现母亲收入损失大，而女性高管比例高、工时强度低的单位能显著减轻这种损失。
Abstract Parental caregiving responsibilities can disrupt paid work, contributing to persistent gender inequalities in employment and earnings. Using Australian employer-employee linked data and a dynamic difference-in-differences approach, this study examines how workplace environments shape the impacts of caregiving shocks, focusing on parents of children receiving chemotherapy. Mothers experience large and persistent earnings losses, while fathers’ outcomes remain stable. Family-friendly firms and occupations, defined by high female representation in senior roles and lower work hour intensity, significantly reduce mothers’ earnings penalties. These findings highlight the important role of workplace conditions in reducing gendered economic costs of caregiving.