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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 - This version: May 2021

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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Health of Elderly Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2021

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092859

Heterogeneous displacement effects of migrant labor supply : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Scharfbillig, Mario; Weißler, Marco - 2019

We provide estimates of the effect of migrant labor supply on resident employment. We exploit variation in the number of asylum seekers eligible to the suspension of a major hiring restriction implemented in a subset of German counties. Our difference-in-difference design allows us to provide...

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - 2010

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating … human capital theory and a household production model of migration where migrants may be temporary by choice and not because …

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …

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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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Can Immigrants Help Women 'Have it All'? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States

Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - 2021

The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2015

Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...

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