TY - JOUR
T1 - Labor market outcomes of informal care provision in Japan
AU - Yamada, Hiroyuki
AU - Shimizutani, Satoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
The empirical analysis in this paper is performed for the “Quantitative Study on Gender Equality Policies” at the Gender Equality Bureau, Cabinet Office. We are grateful to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for providing us with micro-data from the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions. We are also grateful to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese Government for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research number 26220502, which supported this research. The views expressed in this paper are completely personal and unrelated to those of the Japanese Government.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - This paper examines the labor supply outcomes of family care provision for Japanese households in 2010, ten years after the introduction of the public long-term care insurance (LTCI) program. We found that family care provision for parents adversely affected labor market outcomes of main caregivers at home in terms of the probability of working, employment status and hours worked. The adverse effect was found to be more serious for female caregivers than for male caregivers. Moreover, our results suggest that the public LTCI program seems to only partially mitigate the disadvantages of the main caregivers for both males and females.
AB - This paper examines the labor supply outcomes of family care provision for Japanese households in 2010, ten years after the introduction of the public long-term care insurance (LTCI) program. We found that family care provision for parents adversely affected labor market outcomes of main caregivers at home in terms of the probability of working, employment status and hours worked. The adverse effect was found to be more serious for female caregivers than for male caregivers. Moreover, our results suggest that the public LTCI program seems to only partially mitigate the disadvantages of the main caregivers for both males and females.
KW - Caregiver
KW - Informal care
KW - Japan
KW - Labor supply
KW - Long-term care insurance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jeoa.2015.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jeoa.2015.02.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84949095121
SN - 2212-828X
VL - 6
SP - 79
EP - 88
JO - Journal of the Economics of Ageing
JF - Journal of the Economics of Ageing
ER -