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Informal parental care and female labour supply in Japan

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  • Takashi Oshio
  • Emiko Usui

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Using the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement, Japan’s first globally comparable panel survey of the elderly, we estimate the effect on female employment in Japan due to the provision of informal parental care. We observe that informal parental care has little impact on female employment, after controlling for endogeneity of informal care or individual unobserved time-invariant heterogeneity. This finding is consistent with those observed in Europe and the US, underscoring a limited association between care and work in Japan, which is facing ageing at the fastest pace among advanced economies.

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  • Takashi Oshio & Emiko Usui, 2017. "Informal parental care and female labour supply in Japan," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(9), pages 635-638, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:24:y:2017:i:9:p:635-638
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1217303
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    2. Ayako Kondo, 2017. "Availability of Long-term Care Facilities and Middle-aged People's Labor Supply in Japan," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 12(1), pages 95-112, January.
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    5. Emiko Usui, 2017. "Comment on “Availability of Long-term Care Facilities and Middle-aged People's Labor Supply in Japan”," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 12(1), pages 113-114, January.
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    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; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior

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