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Neumark, David (contributor); … - 2005

supplementation of SSI benefits in some states, a migration response to these benefits cannot be dismissed, and migration that is … retirement and migration behavior, the disincentive effects can be overstated or understated. Migration responses to SSI benefits … response to SSI. The evidence indicates that labor supply disincentive effects of SSI do not stem from migration behavior that …

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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the role of migrant care workers

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2020

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...

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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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Old-age pension and extended families : how is adult children's internal migration affected?

Chen, Xi - 2016

This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression discontinuity (hereafter RD) design to a primary longitudinal survey, this paper overcomes...

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Behavioural responses to Disability Insurance generosity in a work-compatibility setting

Zantomio, Francesca; Belloni, Michele; Carrieri, Vincenzo; … - 2024

We investigate behavioral responses to the generosity of Disability Insurance (DI) within the context of work compatibility. Exploiting an institutional discontinuity leading to exogenous variation in replacement rates, we use rich administrative data on the work and health histories of Italian...

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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance

Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer-Weckemann, Björn - 2023

We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance scheme, informal elderly care has adverse and persistent...

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How do pre-school and/or school-age children affect parents' likelihood of migration and off-farm work in rural China's minority regions?

Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2016

In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in their parents' off-farm work decisions for three...

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How do firms adjust to negative labor supply shocks? : evidence from migration outflows

Dicarlo, Emanuele - 2022

The quality of workers in a country positively relates to productivity of firms, adoption of new technologies, and growth. This paper studies adjustments of Italian firms to negative labor supply shocks in the context of workers' outflows from Italy to Switzerland. My diff-in-diff leverages the...

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Consumption and leisure : the welfare impact of migration on family left behind

Murard, Elie - 2016

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin …. Previous literature has produced inconclusive evidence, with some studies suggesting that migration reduces income poverty … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in …

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Sons or daughters? : the impact of children's migration on the health and well-being of parents left behind

Wahba, Jackline; Wang, Chuhong - 2019

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when …

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