How Do Middle-Aged Chinese Men and Women Balance Caregiving and Employment Income?

被引:3
作者
Chai, Huamin [1 ,2 ]
Fu, Rui [3 ]
Coyte, Peter C. [3 ]
机构
[1] East China Normal Univ, Sch Publ Adm, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China
[2] East China Normal Univ, Ctr Publ Policy Res, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Toronto, Dalla Lana Sch Publ Hlth, Inst Hlth Policy Management & Evaluat, Toronto, ON M5T 3M6, Canada
关键词
informal caregiving; unpaid family caregivers; labour force participation; income; labour supply; LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION; LONG-TERM-CARE; INFORMAL CARE; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; ELDERLY PARENTS; FORMAL CARE; CHILD-CARE; EARNINGS; HEALTH; FAMILY;
D O I
10.3390/healthcare9040415
中图分类号
R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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摘要
Unpaid family caregivers might suffer losses in income as a result of care provision. Here we used data from the baseline survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to assess the relationship between hours of weekly caregiving provided to grandchildren/parents/parents-in-law and individual's monthly employment income. Our study sample comprised 3718 middle-aged Chinese adults who were of working age (45-60 years). For women and men separately, we used a likelihood-based method to determine a caregiving threshold in a two-stage Heckman selection procedure. Instrumental variables were used to rule out the endogeneity of caregiving hours. Our analysis revealed a negative association between caregiving and income for women that depended on a caregiving threshold of 63 h per week. There was an absence of caregiving-income relationship among men. These results offer new insights into the opportunity costs of unpaid caregiving and support tailored policies to protect the financial well-being of female caregivers.
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