Health of Elderly Parents, their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers

Series

Health Economics Seminars
Speaker(s)

Martin Halla (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Field

Empirical Microeconomics

Location

Online
Date and time

March 01, 2021
12:00 - 13:00

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show a significant negative impact on labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers.

Zoom link: https://eur-nl.zoom.us/j/95366211155?pwd=N0kvSTNTTmdSSjg5cWJDNkFHa3M4UT09

Meeting ID: 953 6621 1155

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