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Theoretical Aspects of Retirement Decisions

Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2002

Paper presents a survey of five different approaches to retirement decision analysis. Simple life cycle labour supply model leads to a classical optimization problem of choice between work and leisure, but it is highly limited in explaining retirement decision as a static approach. Comparative...

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Productivity Commission Submission to the Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

, including its inquiry into Nursing Home Subsidies and a major conference on Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia …; an analysis of the implications of ageing, trends in disability rates and other key influences on the future demand for …

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Private hospitals in Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

Amongst other things, this report: . provides a statistical overview of the structure of the industry and the activities of the 500 acute care, psychiatric and day hospitals that operate within it; . looks at some indicators of the industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of...

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Ageing, interest rates, and financial flows

Saarenheimo, Tuomas - EconWPA - 2005

. This study concentrates on the effects of ageing on the evolution of global interest rates and financial flows. The study …

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40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited

Corden, Max - EconWPA - 2004

If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting question.

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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005

The commissioned study into the ageing of Australia’s population was released April 2005. The Commission found that one … government. Policy measures will be needed to reduce the fiscal pressure from ageing and/or to finance the fiscal gap. Reforms … would be needed in key human service areas, such as health and aged care, where the pressures of an ageing population will …

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Long-term aged care: expenditure trends and projections

Madge, Alan - EconWPA - 2001

Discusses the factors that influence long-term aged care demand and provides projections of future expenditure. Long-term aged care in this context comprises mainly residential care (nursing homes and hostels) and community care services for the infirm aged.

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Retirement Decisions of Older Czech Male Workers

Galuscak, Kamil - EconWPA - 2002

I analyze the effects associated with the introduction of the earnings test on older Czech males' labor supply in 1996. Using data from the Labor Force Survey, I apply a difference-in-differences estimator to measure the effect of the policy change in the Czech pension scheme using a sample of...

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Long-Term Labour Force Projections for the 25 EU Member States:A set of data for assessing the economic impact of ageing

Carone, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2005

assessment of the potential economic and fiscal impact of an ageing population. The projections presented in this paper show the …

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THE BEQUEST MOTIVE AND SINGLE PEOPLE’S DEMAND FOR LIFE ANNUITIES

VIDAL-MELIA, CARLOS; LEJÁRRAGA-GARCÍA, ANA - EconWPA - 2004

The main objective of this paper is to go deeper into the “annuity puzzle” by introducing the altruistic and strategic bequest motive and determining whether this really is a relevant factor affecting the theoretical decision to purchase life annuities. With this end in view we develop an...

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