Rellstab Sara, Bakx Pieter, García-Gómez Pilar, van Doorslaer Eddy
Erasmus School of Economics, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Tinbergen Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J Health Econ. 2020 Jan;69:102275. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102275. Epub 2019 Dec 12.
Unexpected negative health shocks of a parent may reduce adult children's labour supply via informal caregiving and stress-induced mental health problems. We link administrative data on labour market outcomes, hospitalisations and family relations for the full Dutch working age population for the years 1999-2008 to evaluate the effect of an unexpected parental hospitalisation on the probability of employment and on conditional earnings. Using an event study difference-in-differences model combined with coarsened exact matching and individual fixed effects, we find no effect of an unexpected parental hospitalisation on either employment or earnings for Dutch men and women, and neither for the full population nor for the subpopulations most likely to become caregivers. These findings suggest that the extensive public coverage of formal long-term care in the Netherlands combined with widespread acceptance of part-time work provides sufficient opportunities to deal with adverse health events of family members without having to compromise one's labour supply.
父母意外的负面健康冲击可能会通过非正式照料和压力导致的心理健康问题，减少成年子女的劳动力供给。我们将1999年至2008年荷兰全工作年龄人口的劳动力市场结果、住院情况和家庭关系的行政数据联系起来，以评估意外的父母住院对就业概率和条件收入的影响。使用事件研究差分模型，并结合粗化精确匹配和个体固定效应，我们发现意外的父母住院对荷兰男性和女性的就业或收入均无影响，对全体人口以及最有可能成为照料者的亚群体也没有影响。这些发现表明，荷兰广泛的正式长期护理公共覆盖，再加上对兼职工作的广泛接受，提供了足够的机会来应对家庭成员的不良健康事件，而不必牺牲自己的劳动力供给。
