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Informal Care Giving and Market Labor Supply (in Japanese)

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Miki Kohara (Associate Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP))
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This paper examines how adult-children decide time spent providing nursing care to their parents and their working time in the market. Utilizing a unique survey containing information both on adult-children and their parents in Japan, we clarify whether or not adult-childrenfs supply of informal care would discourage their labor supply. We first find that the existence of inheritance that children expect to receive from their parents in the future is one of the important determinants of whether they provide nursing care to their parents. Controlled for this inheritance effect, childrenfs incentive to provide nursing care discourages their incentive to work, while childrenfs incentive to work does not affect their incentive to provide nursing care. The results imply that limiting access to market care services may decrease labor supply in Japan.

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Paper provided by Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University in its series OSIPP Discussion Paper with number 08J006.

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Date of creation: Apr 2008
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Keywords: Long-Term care Informal care Within-family time transfer Market labor supply Exchange Motive Micro-data Simultaneous-Decisions Japan.

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped
I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models

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