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KMID : 1124020120280040157
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Korean Social Security Studies
2012 Volume.28 No. 4 p.157 ~ p.184
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The Effect of Social Care Services on Women’s Labor Force Participation Over the Life Cycle
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Choi Young
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Abstract
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This study is purposed to examine the effect of social care services, aimed to mitigate women’s care responsibility for children, elderly, and disabled within family, on the women’s labor participation over the life course. For this, pooled time series data were collected from 21 OECD countries during the periods of 1980-2003 and a series of pooled time series regression analysis were conducted to identify those effects. The results showed that the increase of social care service expenditure had a positive effect on the increase of women’s labour force participation. However, these effects are somewhat different according to women’s life cycle and the type of service provided. In other words, the expenditure for children and family service could have a positive effects on the labor force participation over the all age categories. On the contrary, the expenditure for elderly and disabled could have a positive effects only on the labor force participation of middle aged women. Based on these results, increased roles of government in the area of social care in order to cope with new ’care risk’ were suggested.
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KEYWORD
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social care services, defamilization, social care, women’s labor force participation, family policy
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