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Who Cares For The Carers? The Impacts Of Immigrant Elderly Care Workers On The Female Labour Supply

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  • Giulia Bettin

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali - Universita' Politecnica delle Marche)

  • Isabella Giorgetti

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali - Universita' Politecnica delle Marche)

  • Stefano Staffolani

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali - Universita' Politecnica delle Marche)

Abstract

We analyse how the availability of immigrant workers in the elderly care sector affects the labour force participation of Italian females aged between 45 and 65. We estimate a selection bias correction model and exploit an IV strategy based on the role of migration networks in determining the geographical distribution of immigrants over time. Our main findings show that the local availability of foreign–born caregivers has a positive impact on the number of hours worked by Italian women, especially those with high–educational levels and living in the Northern regions. The effect on participation rates are instead positive and significant only for low–educated women and for women living in Central Italy.

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  • Giulia Bettin & Isabella Giorgetti & Stefano Staffolani, 2019. "Who Cares For The Carers? The Impacts Of Immigrant Elderly Care Workers On The Female Labour Supply," Working Papers 444, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali.
    • Handle: RePEc:anc:wpaper:444
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    Keywords

    Keywords: immigration; female labour supply; elderly care services;
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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation

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