The labour market costs of community care
The labour market costs of community care
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DOI：
10.1016/s0167-6296(97)00036-2
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发表时间：
1998-12-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Charles, S
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文献类型：
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作者：
Carmichael, F;Charles, S
本文报告了一项关于非正规照料责任对妇女劳动力供应影响的实证调查。其目的是检验这样一种观点，即英国照顾慢性病患者的政策涉及一个不小的机会成本，其形式是放弃它所依赖的非正式护理人员的劳动力供应。我们发现，每周照看时间少于20小时的非正式照顾者实际上更有可能参与劳动力市场，但与其他类似的非照顾者相比，他们每周工作的时间往往更少。每周照顾20小时或更多的非正式照顾者参加的可能性较小，但只是轻微的。然而，当他们接受正式工作时，他们往往每小时挣得更少，每周工作时间也更少。(C)1998 Elsevier Science B.V.保留所有权利。
This paper reports an empirical investigation into the influence of informal care responsibilities on the labour supply of women. The objective is to examine the argument that the UK policy of caring for the chronic sick 'in the community' involves a nontrivial opportunity cost in the form of the forgone labour supply of the informal carers upon which it relies. We find that informal carers who care for less than 20 h per week are, in fact, more likely to participate in the labour market, but tend to work for fewer hours per week than otherwise similar noncarers. Informal carers who care for 20 h or more a week are less Likely to participate, but only slightly. However, when they do undertake formal employment, they tend to earn less per hour and work for fewer hours per week. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.