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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335597
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003367957
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Public Support for Retirement Income Reform
Hicks, Peter - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096786
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Lifetime Income and Old Age Mortality Risk in Italy over Two Decades
Belloni, Michele - 2012
-mortality gradient, in Italy during the 1980s and 1990s. We extend the literature by estimating the income-mortality gradient using Cox …, most importantly, by providing empirical evidence for Italy on the evolution of the income-mortality gradient between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101319
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The Effect of Age and Time to Death on Health Care Expenditures : The Italian Experience
Atella, Vincenzo - 2014
-SiSSI database, which contains patient-level data collected routinely by General Practitioners in Italy since 2002. We study … expenditure, we find that TTD is a good predictor of outpatient costs in Italy, but age remains a strong driver. These results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064401
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Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries
Almås, Ingvild - 2009
Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159881
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The Wealth Decumulation Behavior of the Retired Elderly in Italy : The Importance of Bequest Motives and Precautionary Saving
Ventura, Luigi - 2020
In this paper, we analyze the wealth accumulation and saving behavior of the retired elderly in Italy using micro data … Bank of Italy. We find that, on average, the retired elderly in Italy are decumulating their wealth (dissaving) but that … retired elderly in Italy are continuing to accumulate wealth and that more than 80 percent are doing positive amounts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837210
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Widows' time, time stress and happiness: adjusting to loss
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2021
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517842
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The wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Italy : the importance of bequest motives and precautionary saving
Ventura, Luigi; Horioka, Charles - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221591