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Labour supply, health and caring : evidence from the UK
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Date Issued
1999-11
Date Available
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Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of own-health,and that of others, on individual labour supply. We estimate a model of hours of caring and hours of work using a large micro dataset of UK households. We find that own ill health has a negative effect
on wages for men but not women; being a carer has a negative effect on wages for
women but not men; and that unobservables associated with caring are positively
correlated with wages for men but not for women. We also find that own ill health has a strong negative effect on the labour supply of both men and women and a negative
effect on their supply of caring. We also find that hours caring are responsive to wages for women.
Sponsorship
European Commission's Training and Mobility of Researchers programme, grant no. ERBFMBICT971973; Keele Research Initiative Scheme
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP99/28
Copyright (Published Version)
UCD Centre for Economic Research 1999
Keywords
Classification
I12
J22
Subject – LCSH
Labor supply--Great Britain
Employees--Health and hygiene
Caregivers
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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