Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163224 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 730
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using microdata from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers' planned retirement age if we do not take into account caregiving intensity but find a negative and significant effect on retirement plans for intensive caregivers, particularly among women. These findings suggest that relying on family members to provide elderly care can pose a serious challenge to the ongoing efforts of the government to promote the labor supply of women and the elderly to address the shrinkage of the working-age population in Japan. The estimation results suggest that ensuring access to formal care services can help family members reconcile their paid work with caregiving requirements, thereby alleviating the adverse effect of caregiving on their retirement plans. The results also suggest that the financial burden of formal care services could require caregivers to postpone retirement in some cases.
Subjects: 
aging
caregiving
elderly care
informal care
Japan
labor supply
long-term care
parental care
retirement
JEL: 
D10
J14
J26
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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