Conciliación entre vida laboral y cuidados informales a personas mayores dependientes en España

Abstract

This paper analyses labour participation of informal caregivers of elder people using the Informal Support Survey (2004). We estimate an ordered probit model for the incidence of labour problems considering the existence of sample selection due to working status before becoming caregiver and that informal caregiving hours and formal care unmet needs are endogenous variables. Men and youngest people are less prone of suffering labour problems, whereas women, caregivers with more caregiving years, caregivers of great dependent people or those living in small municipalities attain a higher probability of quitting their job. However, the emergence of problems is independent from the number of caregiving years for a load between 3 and 5 daily caregiving hours, in part due to the fact that the informal caregiver tries to substitute formal care deficiencies giving up his personal working life