Topic: Labor Force Participation of Chinese’s Population
Aged 50 or Older from 1982 to 2000: What Role Does Coresidency with Adult
Children Play?
Presenter: Rachel
Connelly
Affiliation: Bion R. Cram
Professor of Economics and Chair, Economics Department, Bowdoin College, IZA
Research Fellow
Time:4:00-5:30PM, Nov 28th,
2012
Date: 608, 6th Floor,
Academic Hall, CUFE
Abstract
In previous work Maurer-Fazio, et
al (2011) found that prime-age women in urban China increased their labor force
participation when they lived in the same house as their parents or
parents-in-law. This project reverses the lens to consider the determinants of
residency and labor force participation of older persons in both rural and urban
China.It finds that the effect of coresidency on labor force participation of
the older adult differs for urban and rural residence and between men and women.
Urban older women’s labor force participation is shown to be unaffected by
coresidence with their adult children, while coresidence increases older urban
men’s labor force participation. In rural areas, coresidence has a very large
negative effect on the labor force participation of both men and women elders.
The reduction in coresidency rates between 1982 and 2000 are part of the
explanation for the diverging labor force participation rates of urban and rural
elders.