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Intergenerational Time Transfers between Married Women and their Co-residing Elderly Parents and their Impact on Married Women's Labor Force Participation  

Han, Ji-Sue (Department of Consumer Sciences, The Ohio State University)
Hong, Gong-Soog (Department of Consumer Sciences, The Ohio State University)
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Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association / v.45, no.6, 2007 , pp. 61-75 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper examines the intergenerational time transfers between married women and their co-residing elderly parents, and how they affect married women's labor force participation and work hour. The sample was drawn from the "2004 Time Use Survey" conducted by Korea National Statistical Office and the Heckman's 2-step model was estimated to examine these relationships. We find that women's caregiving time for their elderly parents reduces their likelihood of participating in the labor force. On the contrary, parental time transfers for married women increases the probability of their labor force participation. We find no evidence that the actual hours of paid work is related to the time transfers between married women and their elderly parents. In other words, after married women decide to participate in the labor force, their work hours are not affected by the time spent for parents and time gained from parents to them. Parental income is positively associated with the married women's labor force participation whereas husband's income is negatively related. The married women working in service occupation and earn salaries work longer hours than those employed as laborer and wage workers. Having older parents and owning the second home reduce working hours of married women.
Keywords
married women; labor force participation; time transfer; elderly parents; caregiving;
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