In this paper we analyse the impact of long-term care on informal caregivers’ status in the labour market. We focus on people’s perceptions that their labour activity is hindered partially or totally by their care-giving commitments. We use the Eurostat ECHP dataset 1994-2001, which includes some questions specifically aimed to investigate whether people suffer care-giving constraints; this information allows us to overcome the endogeneity problem due to the double relationship between labour market participation and care-giving. We estimate the probability to be constrained according to a number of variables among the sample of caregivers, adjusting for sample selection through the Heckman 2-stage estimation procedure.
The impact of Long-Term Care on caregivers’ participation in the labour market.
TEDIOSI, FABRIZIO
2011
Abstract
In this paper we analyse the impact of long-term care on informal caregivers’ status in the labour market. We focus on people’s perceptions that their labour activity is hindered partially or totally by their care-giving commitments. We use the Eurostat ECHP dataset 1994-2001, which includes some questions specifically aimed to investigate whether people suffer care-giving constraints; this information allows us to overcome the endogeneity problem due to the double relationship between labour market participation and care-giving. We estimate the probability to be constrained according to a number of variables among the sample of caregivers, adjusting for sample selection through the Heckman 2-stage estimation procedure.
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