Journal
FEMINIST ECONOMICS
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 147-170Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1383618
Keywords
Informal care; childcare; eldercare; labor supply; earnings; China
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- International Development Research Centre of Canada [107579]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71603013, 71503282]
- Young Elite Teacher Project of Central University of Finance and Economics [QYP1609]
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This study examines the impacts of unpaid family care on labor supply and earnings of women and men near retirement age in urban China. Using the 2011 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) and ordinary least squares (OLS) and instrumental variable approaches, it finds that grandchild care is negatively associated with both women's and men's labor force participation, while there are no effects for eldercare. For women caregivers, caring for grandchildren substantially lowers paid labor hours compared to noncaregivers. No significant relationships are found between eldercare and paid labor hours of women workers. For men workers, neither grandchild care nor eldercare is significantly associated with labor hours. The study also finds no statistically significant relationships between grandchild care and labor earnings for either women or men. Eldercare, however, is positively associated with the earnings of men workers.
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