Health selection into employment in a family health and time use context

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dc.contributor.authorDoan, T.
dc.contributor.authorLeach, L.
dc.contributor.authorZhao, Y.
dc.contributor.authorStrazdins, L.
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractUsing nationally representative data from Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia, this paper examines the impact of poor health, family impaired health and family time on the labour market participation of couples aged 25–64. We address sample selection bias and endogeneity bias by employing instrumental variable Tobit models. Our findings indicate that health selection into the labour market occurs not only due to individual's own health but also due to other family members' health, and family time—which is largely determined by various family factors such as a presence of preschool children (childcare) and partner's major life events. We find a significant trade-off between family unpaid time and labour market participation, which is augmented after correcting for endogeneity of family unpaid time in market time consideration. This supports our argument that health selection should be considered within the family context, in which each member makes decisions conditional not only on their own but also other family members' health and time resources.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityTinh Doan, Liana Leach, Yixuan Zhao, Lyndall Strazdins
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Journal of Social Issues, 2024; 59(4):1086-1107
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ajs4.334
dc.identifier.issn0157-6321
dc.identifier.issn1839-4655
dc.identifier.orcidDoan, T. [0000-0002-2297-8187]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/148082
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190100975
dc.rights© 2024 The Authors. Australian Journal of Social Issues published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australian Social Policy Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.334
dc.subjectfamily impaired health; family time use context; health selection into employment; health status
dc.titleHealth selection into employment in a family health and time use context
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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