Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Maestas, Nicole; Messel, Matt; Truskinovsky, Yulya
• 署名单位: Harvard University; Wayne State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/728810
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: S183-S218
• 关键词: informal care; opportunity costs; womens employment; life-cycle

摘要

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.