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The Health Services Use Among Older Canadians in Rural and Urban Areas
Conde, Heather; McDonald, James Ted - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007
Even though universal health care is one of the fundamental pillars of Canadian society, the rising cost of all services has resulted in the relocation and redistribution of funding and services between rural and urban areas. While most econometric analyses of health service use in Canada...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763288
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The surprisingly large policy implications of changing retirement durations
Hicks, Peter - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2011
work strongly in the direction of even shorter durations of retirement and longer durations of work. These new pressures … retirement years in large numbers, increasing the demand for older workers. On the supply side, there will be a large in increase … market scenarios. Delaying work-retirement transitions by even this amount would have large, positive economic and fiscal …
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Time Series Properties and Stochastic Forecasts: Some Econometrics of Mortality from the Canadian Laboratory
Denton, Frank T.; Feaver, Christine H.; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001
Methods for time series modeling of mortality and stochastic forecasting of life expectancies are explored, using … Canadian data. Consideration is given first to alternative indexes of aggregate mortality. Age-sex group system models are then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763277
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Time Series Properties and Stochastic Forecasts: Some Econometrics of Mortality from the Canadian Laboratory
Denton, Frank T.; Feaver, Christine H.; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001
Methods for time series modeling of mortality and stochastic forecasting of life expectancies are explored, using … Canadian data. Consideration is given first to alternative indexes of aggregate mortality. Age-sex group system models are then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635291
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Cohort Working Life Tables for Older Canadians
Denton, Frank T.; Feaver, Christine H.; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009
mortality coupled with alternative assumptions about future participation rates. Separate tables are provided for the years 1976 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013019
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The Wealth of Mexican Americans
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2004
This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican Americans. Results reveal that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in conditional expected wealth functions. Similarly, income differentials are important, but do not play the...
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How Do Parents Affect the Life Chances of Their Children as Adults? An Idiosyncratic Review
Ermisch, John - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2003
From genes to bequests, parents have important influences on the income, health and general living standards of their children as adults. The purpose of this paper is to review how parents affect the life chances of their children, with a particular focus on my own research in this area.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763337
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The Future Population of Canada and Its Age Distribution.
Denton, F.T.; Feaver, C.; Spencer, B.G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1996
fertility, mortality and immigration so as to produce future populations characterised as "medium", "old", "high immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763390
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Population Aging and the Maintenance of Social Support Systems
Denton, F.T.; Spencer, B.G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1996
The baby boom generation is now well into middle age, and over the next few decades will reach old age. As the boom generation grows old the costs of maintaining existing social support systems will rise, and the ability or willingness to sustain those systems has been called into question. In...
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The Portfolio Choices of Hispanic Couples
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006
This paper analyzes the portfolio allocations of couple-headed, Hispanic families using Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data. Our results reveal that Hispanic couples as a group are less wealthy than otherwise similar white couples, although there is substantial variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181057