Do Spanish informal caregivers come to the rescue of dependent people with formal care unmet needs?

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• dc.contributor.author Jiménez-Martín, Sergica
• dc.contributor.author Vilaplana Prieto, Cristinaca
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T12:07:48Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-26T12:07:48Z
• dc.date.issued 2013-05-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:15:14Z
• dc.description.abstract This paper analyses the effect of unmet formal care needs on informal caregiving hours in Spain using the two waves of the Informal Support Survey (1994, 2004). Testing for double sample selection from formal care receipt and the emergence of unmet needs provides evidence that the omission of either one of these two variables would cause underestimation of the number of informal caregiving hours. After controlling for these two factors the number of hours of care increases with both the degree of dependency and unmet needs. In the presence of unmet needs, the number of informal caregiving hours increases when some formal care is received. This result refutes the substitution model and supports complementarity or task specificity between both types of care. For the same combination of formal care and unmet needs, informal caregiving hours increased between 1994 and 2004. Finally, in the model for 2004, the selection term associated with the unmet needs equation is larger than that of the formal care equation, suggesting that using the number of formal care recipients as an indicator of the goodness of the long-term care system may be confounding, if we do not complete this information with other quality indicators.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1366
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20745
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1366
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• dc.subject.keyword double sample selection
• dc.subject.keyword unmet need
• dc.subject.keyword informal care
• dc.subject.keyword caregiver
• dc.subject.keyword formal care
• dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
• dc.subject.keyword Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods
• dc.title Do Spanish informal caregivers come to the rescue of dependent people with formal care unmet needs?ca
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