Chen Lu, Zhao Na, Fan Hongli, Coyte Peter C
1 School of Finance, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
2 Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, School of Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Res Aging. 2017 Feb;39(2):345-371. doi: 10.1177/0164027515611184. Epub 2016 Aug 3.
Data were used from the 1991-2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey to examine the influence of informal care on labor market outcomes for married women of working aged, with emphasis on caregiving intensity. After accounting for potential endogeneity between caregiving and labor force participation (LFP) through simultaneous equations modeling, caregivers who provided more than 15 or 20 hr of caregiving per week were 4.5-7.7% less likely to be LFPs. Intensive caregivers who remained working had significantly lower (4.97-7.20) weekly hours of work. The significant positive effect of informal care on LFP only existed in the rural sample, and these women also had much lower hours of work than their urban counterparts. Opportunities exist for policy interventions that target intensive caregivers in order to allow them to balance both work and caregiving.
研究数据来自1991 - 2009年中国健康与营养调查，旨在考察非正式照料对适龄已婚职业女性劳动力市场结果的影响，重点关注照料强度。通过联立方程模型解决了照料与劳动力参与率（LFP）之间潜在的内生性问题后，每周提供超过15或20小时照料的照料者成为劳动力的可能性降低了4.5%至7.7%。仍在工作的高强度照料者的每周工作时长显著减少（4.97 - 7.20小时）。非正式照料对劳动力参与率的显著积极影响仅存在于农村样本中，而且这些女性的工作时长也远低于城市女性。针对高强度照料者的政策干预存在机会，以便让她们能够平衡工作和照料。
