未婚子女及其特征对农村中老年人劳动参与的影响分析  

The Influence of the Number of Children and Their Characteristics on the Labor Participation of the Elderly in Rural Areas

作　　者：李琴[1] 丁倩 李大胜[1] LI Qin;DING Qian;LI Da-sheng(College of Economic and Management,South China Agricultural University,Guangzhou 510642,China)

机构地区：[1]华南农业大学经济管理学院,广东广州510642

出　　处：《人口与发展》2023年第5期53-64,共12页Population and Development

基　　金：国家社会科学基金一般项目“丧偶对农村老年人健康的影响:作用机制与政策干预”(项目编号:21BJY011)。

摘　　要：运用中国健康与养老追踪调查(CHARLS)2013、2015和2018年的数据,利用双向固定效应模型分析了未婚子女及其特征对农村中老年人劳动参与的影响。研究结果表明,子女未婚会使得农村中老年人更多地转向高报酬的非农劳动,当家中有未婚子女,非农劳动参与率会提高3.9%。当家中有适龄、低收入的未婚儿子,父母的经济压力最大,劳动参与率最高。机制分析表明,子女的婚姻支付会通过高彩礼和高房价转嫁到父母身上从而增加农村中老年人的劳动供给,父母与子女之间的经济转移并不是其中的影响机制。Using data from the China Health and Aging Tracking Survey(CHARLS)for 2013,2015,and 2018,this paper analyzes the effects of unmarried children and their characteristics on labor force participation among rural middle-aged and older adults using a two-way fixed effects model.The findings show that having unmarried children increases the shift of rural mid-dle-aged and older adults to higher-paying nonfarm labor,with nonfarm labor force participa-tion increasing by 3.9%when there are unmarried children in the household.Parents are most financially stressed and have the highest labor force participation rate when there are unmarried sons of school age in the household with lower incomes.Mechanism analysis suggests that mar-riage payments by children are passed on to parents through high bride price and high house prices,thus increasing labor supply for middle-aged and elderly rural people,while economic transfers between parents and children are not part of the influence mechanism.

关 键 词：未婚子女 劳动参与 农村中老年人 婚姻支付 

分 类 号：F241.2[经济管理—劳动经济]