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Gender Inequalities in Labor Market Outcomes of Informal Caregivers near Retirement Age in Urban China

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  • Yafeng Wang
  • Chuanchuan Zhang

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This study examines the impacts of unpaid family care on labor supply and earnings of women and men near retirement age in urban China. Using the 2011 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) and ordinary least squares (OLS) and instrumental variable approaches, it finds that grandchild care is negatively associated with both women's and men's labor force participation, while there are no effects for eldercare. For women caregivers, caring for grandchildren substantially lowers paid labor hours compared to noncaregivers. No significant relationships are found between eldercare and paid labor hours of women workers. For men workers, neither grandchild care nor eldercare is significantly associated with labor hours. The study also finds no statistically significant relationships between grandchild care and labor earnings for either women or men. Eldercare, however, is positively associated with the earnings of men workers.

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  • Yafeng Wang & Chuanchuan Zhang, 2018. "Gender Inequalities in Labor Market Outcomes of Informal Caregivers near Retirement Age in Urban China," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 147-170, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:24:y:2018:i:2:p:147-170
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1383618
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    1. Zhu, Ge, 2024. "Liberated from care: Long-term care insurance policy and Employment for women," MPRA Paper 120472, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Cristina Gagliardi & Flavia Piccinini & Giovanni Lamura & Georgia Casanova & Paolo Fabbietti & Marco Socci, 2022. "The Burden of Caring for Dependent Older People and the Resultant Risk of Depression in Family Primary Caregivers in Italy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-18, March.
    3. Bidisha Lahiri, 2018. "Racial Earnings Disparities with Endogenous Labor Market Participation," Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, Springer, vol. 1(1), pages 16-25, July.
    4. Huamin Chai & Rui Fu & Peter C. Coyte, 2021. "Does Unpaid Caregiving Erode Working Hours Among Middle-Aged Chinese Adults?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 157(3), pages 977-999, October.
    5. Tanima Ahmed & Maria S. Floro, 2024. "Unpaid Care to Older Persons and Tradeoffs in Time Use: The Experience of Working-Age Women and Men in the US," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 45(1), pages 71-87, March.

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