Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5086403 | Japan and the World Economy | 2008 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
This study takes advantage of the introduction of Japan's public long-term care insurance scheme in 2000 as a unique natural experiment to evaluate how the socialization of long-term care affects female labor participation. Our difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the introduction of the scheme had no effect on female labor market participation in 2001, but a large and positive effect in 2002. The new long-term care scheme raised the probability that female caregivers were employed by 8 percentage points and, on average, the number of days per week and hours per day worked by female caregivers by 10-20 percent age points.
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Authors
Satoshi Shimizutani, Wataru Suzuki, Haruko Noguchi,