DYNAMIC WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF ELDER PARENT CARE

This article formulates and estimates a dynamic discrete choice model of elder parent care and work to analyze how caregiving affects a woman's current and future labor force participation and wages. The model incorporates parental health changes, human capital accumulation, and job offer avail...

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Volume:	56
Main Author:	Meghan M. Skira
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	HOBOKEN Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.02.2015 WILEY Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	International economic review (Philadelphia) Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 63 - 93
Data of publication:	20150201
ISSN:	0020-6598 1468-2354
EISSN:	1468-2354
Discipline:	Economics
Bibliography:	I am especially grateful to Peter Gottschalk, Andrew Beauchamp, and Norma B. Coe for their valuable comments. I would also like to thank Brent Bundick, Donald Cox, Michael Darden, Devlin Hanson, Donna Gilleskie, Nadia Karamcheva, Steven Lehrer, Edward Norton, Claudia Olivetti, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, Shannon Seitz, Steven Stern, Courtney H. Van Houtven, Mathis Wagner, France Weaver, two anonymous referees, and the editor Holger Sieg for helpful comments and suggestions. I gratefully acknowledge financial support from the U.S. Social Security Administration funded as part of the Retirement Research Consortium. All errors are mine.
Subjects:	Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences INFORMAL CARE LONG-TERM-CARE HEALTH-INSURANCE SOCIAL-SECURITY RETIREMENT PREFERENCES MEDICAL-CARE MODEL DIVISION OPPORTUNITY COSTS
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2015 Web of Knowledge Web of Science Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS