Bolin K, Lindgren B, Lundborg P
LUCHE (Lund University Centre for Health Economics), Lund, Sweden.
J Health Econ. 2008 May;27(3):718-38. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2007.10.004. Epub 2007 Nov 29.
An increasing demand for both formal and informal care is likely to result from the ongoing demographic transition at the same time as there is a further move away from the traditional domestic division of labour. Public policy-making that aims at increasing the supply of informal care necessitates knowledge about the relative importance of various incentives for individual care providers. This paper takes as a point of departure that the willingness to supply informal care is partly explained by the extent to which it adversely affects labour-market outcomes and analyses the effect on labour-market outcomes of providing informal care to one's elderly parent(s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care provided and, on the other, (1) the probability of employment, (2) hours worked, and (3) wages, respectively. The results suggest that giving informal care to one's elderly parents is associated with significant costs in terms of foregone labour-market opportunities and that these adverse effects vary between countries.
随着人口结构的持续转变，同时人们进一步摆脱传统的家庭分工模式，对正式和非正式护理的需求都在不断增加。旨在增加非正式护理供给的公共政策制定需要了解各种激励措施对个体护理提供者的相对重要性。本文的出发点是，提供非正式护理的意愿部分取决于其对劳动力市场结果的不利影响程度，并分析了欧洲50岁及以上人群为年迈父母提供非正式护理对劳动力市场结果的影响。利用来自SHARE（欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查）的数据，分别考察了一方面提供非正式护理的时长与另一方面（1）就业概率、（2）工作时长和（3）工资之间的关联。结果表明，为年迈父母提供非正式护理会带来因放弃劳动力市场机会而产生的巨大成本，而且这些不利影响在不同国家有所不同。
