abstract: 'This study examines the impacts of unpaid family care on labor supply

  and earnings of women and men near retirement age in urban China. Using

  the 2011 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) and

  ordinary least squares (OLS) and instrumental variable approaches, it

  finds that grandchild care is negatively associated with both women''s

  and men''s labor force participation, while there are no effects for

  eldercare. For women caregivers, caring for grandchildren substantially

  lowers paid labor hours compared to noncaregivers. No significant

  relationships are found between eldercare and paid labor hours of women

  workers. For men workers, neither grandchild care nor eldercare is

  significantly associated with labor hours. The study also finds no

  statistically significant relationships between grandchild care and

  labor earnings for either women or men. Eldercare, however, is

  positively associated with the earnings of men workers.'
affiliation: 'Wang, YF (Corresponding Author), Peking Univ, Inst Social Sci Survey,
  Yiheyuan Rd, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China.

  Wang, Yafeng, Peking Univ, Inst Social Sci Survey, Yiheyuan Rd, Beijing 100871,
  Peoples R China.

  Zhang, Chuanchuan, Cent Univ Finance \& Econ, Sch Econ, 39 South Coll Rd, Beijing
  100081, Peoples R China.'
author: Wang, Yafeng and Zhang, Chuanchuan
author-email: 'econyfwang@gmail.com

  ccz.zhang@gmail.com'
author_list:
- family: Wang
  given: Yafeng
- family: Zhang
  given: Chuanchuan
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1383618
eissn: 1466-4372
files: []
issn: 1354-5701
journal: FEMINIST ECONOMICS
keywords: Informal care; childcare; eldercare; labor supply; earnings; China
keywords-plus: 'CHILD-CARE COSTS; FORCE PARTICIPATION; MARRIED-WOMEN; PAID-WORK;

  ECONOMIC TRANSITION; STRUCTURAL MODEL; LATE MIDLIFE; EMPLOYMENT;

  MOTHERS; CHOICES'
language: English
number: 2, SI
number-of-cited-references: '38'
pages: 147-170
papis_id: 6f4b7385323e98d8b78756ba4b36dfe4
ref: Wang2018genderinequalities
times-cited: '10'
title: Gender Inequalities in Labor Market Outcomes of Informal Caregivers near Retirement
  Age in Urban China
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000428813800007
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '47'
volume: '24'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Women's Studies
year: '2018'