Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307399 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] The Journal of the Economics of Ageing [ISSN:] 2212-8298 [Volume:] 23 [Article No.:] 100395 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1-31
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
In this paper we estimate the effect of unemployment on informal care provision. For the identification we use plant closures as a source of exogenous variation and combine difference-in-differences with matching based on entropy balancing. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that there is a time conflict between employment and informal care provision. Unemployment increases the probability of providing care by 2.9 percentage points while the daily hours of care provision rise by around 0.05 h per week-day. Both men and women react with significant increases in care provision. We find the largest effects for women with low education.
Subjects: 
Long-term care
informal care
long-term care insurance
labor supply
unemployment
plant closure
entropy balancing
JEL: 
I11
I18
I38
J14
J21
J22
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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