Juggling paid work and elderly care provision in Japan: Does a flexible work environment help family caregivers cope?
Juggling paid work and elderly care provision in Japan: Does a flexible work environment help family caregivers cope?
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在日本兼顾有偿工作和老年护理服务：灵活的工作环境是否有助于家庭护理人员应对？
DOI：
10.1016/j.jjie.2021.101171
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Niimi Yoko
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作者：
Hiroaki Miyamoto;Nujin Suphaphiphat;Niimi Yoko
本文利用一项来自日本调查的独特数据，考察了根据《儿童看护和家庭看护假法案》专门针对有照看责任的工人的灵活工作安排是否有助于家庭照顾者协调有偿工作和照看服务。回归结果表明，获得照顾者假期--允许家庭照顾者连续休假长达93天--与一个人在开始需要父母照顾的一年内离职的可能性呈显著负相关。即使在较长期内，在我们考虑到劳动力供应决策中可能的护理提供的内生性的规范中，这种获得照料者休假的缓解效果仍然强劲。因此，本文的研究结果表明，日本根据该法案引入的照顾者假期有助于满足家庭照顾者在一段时间内休假的需要，以做出必要的安排，以适应日常生活中突然出现的对老年护理的需求。
Using unique data from a Japanese survey, this paper examines whether flexible work arrangements targeted specifically at workers with caregiving responsibilities under the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act help family caregivers reconcile paid work with care provision. The regression results suggest that access to caregiver leave, which allows family caregivers to take a continuous leave of up to 93 days, is negatively and significantly associated with the probability of leaving one’s job within one year of the onset of demand for parental care. This alleviating effect of access to caregiver leave remains robust even in the longer term and in a specification where we take into account the possible endogeneity of care provision to the labor supply decision. The findings of this paper thus suggest that the caregiver leave introduced pursuant to the Act in Japan helps meet the need of family caregivers to take a certain period of time off from work to make the necessary arrangements for accommodating the sudden and unexpected demand for elderly care in their daily lives.