Health and the double burden of full-time work and informal care provision - Evidence from administrative data

Labour Economics

Volumn 24, Issue , 2013, Pages 305-322

  Schmitz, Hendrik ^a,b   Stroka, Magdalena A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CINCH ^*  (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Double burden; Drugs; Fixed effects; Informal care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886405759     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2013.09.006     Document Type: Article

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