Does Unpaid Caregiving Erode Working Hours Among Middle-Aged Chinese Adults?
Does Unpaid Caregiving Erode Working Hours Among Middle-Aged Chinese Adults?
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DOI：
10.1007/s11205-021-02692-w
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Coyte PC
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文献类型：
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作者：
Chai H;Fu R;Coyte PC
中年人通常面临着有偿工作和多重照顾角色的负担。本文利用中国健康与退休纵向研究的基线调查数据，检验了每周无薪照顾时间与工作时间之间的关系。该分析是在一个具有全国代表性的样本中进行的，该样本包括3645名年龄在45-60岁之间的中国工作年龄成年人，他们没有务农，有年幼的孙子和/或父母/岳父母。对于女性和男性，我们结合使用赫克曼选择程序和工具变量来估计每周照顾时间和工作时间之间的关系。还分别为女性和男性确定了看护阈值，以允许测试这种关系中的扭结和/或中断。我们发现，对于女性来说，在每周照顾72小时之前，她们的工作时间最初与照顾时间无关；然后，他们的工作时间在照顾阈值上几乎增加了两倍，而在超过阈值后，每增加一个小时的照顾，他们的工作时间就会下降2.02%。对于男性来说，每增加一小时的照顾时间，他们的工作时间就会减少2.74%。虽然男性的看护阈值为112小时，但没有足够的证据表明这一关系存在统计学上显著的扭曲或不连续性。这些研究结果为针对受雇家庭照顾者的一系列财政和人力资源政策提供了支持，以促进他们的福祉，同时保持他们的工作效率。在线版本包含补充材料，可在10.1007/s11205-021-02692-w获得。
Middle-aged adults are commonly confronted with the burden of paid work and multiple caregiving roles. This paper examines the relationship between weekly hours of unpaid caregiving and hours of work using data from the baseline survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. The analysis was conducted on a nationally representative sample of 3645 working-age Chinese adults aged 45–60 years who were not farming and had a young grandchild and/or a parent/parent-in-law. For women and men separately, we combined the use of a Heckman selection procedure and instrumental variables to estimate the relationship between weekly caregiving hours and hours of work. A caregiving threshold was also identified for women and men separately to allow for the testing of a kink and/or a discontinuity in this relationship. We found that for women, their working hours were initially unrelated to hours of caregiving before the threshold of 72 caregiving hours per week; then, their working hours experienced an almost two-fold increase at the caregiving threshold before falling by 2.02 percent for each additional hour of caregiving beyond the threshold. For men, their hours of work fell by 2.74 percent for each hourly increment in caregiving. Although a caregiving threshold of 112 h was identified for men, there was insufficient evidence for a statistically significant kink or discontinuity in this relationship. These findings provide support for a range of fiscal and human resource policies that target employed family caregivers in order to advance their well-being while also maintaining their work productivity. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-021-02692-w.
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3.5
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