女性の賃金が親への介護行動に与える影響

Yukawa, Shiho (2012): 女性の賃金が親への介護行動に与える影響.

Abstract

Using data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers (JPSC), this paper analyzes how the wage rates of married women are related to whether they take care of their and their husbands’ parents or not. We find that married women who earn higher wages tend not to take care of their own parents but instead make larger money transfers to them. These results suggest that the higher wages of married women induces the substitution of care giving for money transfers to parents, which may be attributed to the increase in the opportunity cost of care. On the other hand, we find that the high wages of these women are negatively related to their support of their husbands’ parents.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: The Effect of Women's Wage on Elderly Care
• Language: Japanese
• Keywords: 女性の賃金; 経済援助; 介護; Bivariate Probit; 自分の親と配偶者の親間での違い
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J14 - Economics of the Elderly ; Economics of the Handicapped ; Non-Labor Market Discrimination; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J30 - General

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