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The Effect of Adult Children’s Working Hours on Visits to Elderly Parents: A Natural Experiment in Korea

Abstract:
Despite its significant policy implications, little is known about the impact working hours have on how often workers visit their elderly parents. Evidence is particularly lacking on men’s overtime work and workers in Asia. We examine the causal impact of male workers’ working times on parental visits, using a natural experiment to eliminate potential endogeneity bias. In 2004, the Korean government began reducing its legal workweek from 44 to 40\xa0h, gradually expanding it from larger to smaller establishments by 2011. Using annual longitudinal data from the 2005 to 2014 Korea Labor and Income Panel Study (N\u2009=\u20097005 person-waves), we estimated an instrumental variable (IV) fixed-effects (FE) regression model. Our IV was an indicator variable of whether an individual full-time worker’s legal workweek was reduced to 40\xa0h in a given year. The results showed that working one additional hour a week lowered the frequency of visits by 6.5% (95% confidence interval [−\u200913.0%, 0.0%]), which was not apparent in a FE model without the IV. Working long hours has implications for workers’ interactions with their elderly parents, and the failure to consider endogeneity in actual working hours may understate the negative effect. Reducing work hours may serve as an effective policy intervention for improving the well-being of older adults in rapidly aging Asian countries in a work-oriented and family-centered culture. We also highlight the need for further attention to men’s work hours, which are often considered much less important than women’s work status in population research on intergenerational support.
Author Listing： Erin Hye-Won Kim;Changjun Lee;Young Kyung Do
Volume： 38
Pages： 53-72
DOI： 10.1007/S11113-018-9486-0
Language： English
Journal： Population Research and Policy Review

POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW

POPUL RES POLICY REV

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Now accepted in JSTOR! Population Research and Policy Review has a twofold goal: it provides a convenient source for government officials and scholars in which they can learn about the policy implications of recent research relevant to the causes and consequences of changing population size and composition; and it provides a broad, interdisciplinary coverage of population research.Population Research and Policy Review seeks to publish quality material of interest to professionals working in the fields of population, and those fields which intersect and overlap with population studies. The publication includes demographic, economic, social, political and health research papers and related contributions which are based on either the direct scientific evaluation of particular policies or programs, or general contributions intended to advance knowledge that informs policy and program development.

现在已在JSTOR中接受！《人口研究和政策审查》有两个目标：它为政府官员和学者提供了一个方便的来源，使他们能够了解与人口数量和组成变化的原因和后果有关的最新研究的政策含义;并提供人口研究的广泛、跨学科的报道。《人口研究和政策评论》力求出版从事人口领域以及与人口研究交叉和重叠的领域的专业人员感兴趣的高质量材料。该出版物包括人口、经济、社会、政治和卫生研究论文及相关稿件，这些论文或基于对特定政策或方案的直接科学评估，或基于旨在促进政策和方案制定的知识的一般稿件。

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