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Medical Innovations and Ageing : A Health Economics Perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and … conceptualization of ageing as an accumulation of health deficits. The paper also discusses the role of medical progress for longevity …

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Recessions and Occupational Match Quality : The Role of Age, Gender, and Education

Addison, John T. - 2020

change over the lifecycle and report that the total amount of mismatch averaged over all workers of the younger cohort … actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …

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Cognitive Skills Among Adults : An Impeding Factor for Gender Convergence?

Battisti, Michele; Fedorets, Alexandra; Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

While gender diﬀerences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive … skill distributions by gender across 34 countries. Despite increasing educational equality, inequalities in numeracy skills … favoring men compared to women are pervasive. These skill diﬀerences account for a sizable part of the gender wage gap …

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Motivated Beliefs and the Elderly's Compliance with COVID-19 Measures

von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021

Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals might not comply with the COVID-19 measures to reassure themselves that they...

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Age and Health Related Inheritance Taxation

Leroux, M.‐L; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021

This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from...

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Health and Aging Before and after Retirement

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2021

We investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 European countries. Occupational groups are classified...

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‘Investing’ in Care for Old Age? An Examination of Long-Term Care Expenditure Dynamics and Its Spillovers

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022

We first study the dynamic drivers of expenditure on long-term care (LTC) programs, and more specifically, the effects of labour market participation of traditional unpaid caregivers (women aged 40 and older) on LTC spending. Second, we examine spillover effects of a rise on LTC expenditure on...

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Are the Elderly a Threat to Educational Expenditures?

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a …

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Satisfaction with Amenities and Taste for Revolt in the Middle East

Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals’ satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality and taste for revolt in the Middle East. Using recent World Value Survey data (WVS7, 2017-2021) from Egypt and Iraq (which have been experiencing severe...

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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence

Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021

Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...

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