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Time Resource Transfers of Married Couples to Their Parents on Decision-Making Power

배우자간 의사결정력에 따른 노부모로의 시간자원 이전

  • Yoon, Won-Ah (Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • 윤원아 (일리노이주립대학 농업소비자경제학과)
  • Received : 2010.03.02
  • Accepted : 2010.04.16
  • Published : 2010.05.30
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Abstract

This paper investigates whether intra-household bargaining power affects couples' caregiving decisions during instances of competing parental demands for assistance. The primary focus is on examining how partners' bargaining power influences the relative allocation of time resources between parents and parents-in-law, assuming that children prefer to transfer caregiving resources toward their own parents over their parents-in-law. The findings in this study reject the bargaining theory that couple's parental care behavior results from a bargaining process between the husband and the wife. More specifically, the results did not clearly show that children prefer to transfer caregiving resources toward their own parents over their parents-in-law. Decision-making power, measured by final decision-making authority, also failed to affect the relative care transfers.

본 연구는 노인부양에 관한 부부간 의사결정 과정에서 부양의 주체인 여성 배우자의 의사결정 파워가 실제 노인부양참여를 위한 결정에 어떤 역할을 하고 있는지 알아보기 위하여 미국내 중고령층을 대상으로 한 2002년 HRS(Health and Retirement Study) 자료를 사용하여 실증분석하였다. 또한 이 연구에서는 배우자 양쪽의 부모로부터 동시에 부양의 역할이 요구되었을 때 부부간 교섭력(Bargaining Power)을 대표할 수 있는 여성의 경제력과 교육수준이 부양결정에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 다항 로짓 분석 (Multinomial Logit) 분석을 사용하여 검증하였다. 분석결과는 부부의 노부모 부양결정은 부부간 교섭력 보다는 양쪽 부모의 상대적 건강상태, 재정상태, 그리고 간호를 위한 대체 인적자원의 여부등에 의존하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 또한 남성과는 다르게, 여성의 연령과 노동참여는 여성 자신의 노부모 부양결정에 결코 부적 영향을 주지 않았으며, 또한 양쪽 부모로 부터 동시에 부양참여가 요구되었을때 성인자녀가족의 부양결정은 같은 조건이라면 여성배우자쪽 부모의 부양에 보다 더 적극적으로 반응하는 것으로 밝혀졌다.

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