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Ageing and Productivity Growth : Are There Macro-Level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?
Werding, Martin - 2021
demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … paper concludes with simulations for a number of OECD countries showing that the impact of projected ageing of the labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316605
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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care
Cremer, Helmuth - 2008
We consider a two-period model. In the first period, individuals consume two goods: one is sinful and the other is not. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate this effect. In the second period, individuals can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772005
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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases
Bell, Clive - 2006
mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that … retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate … inequality under nuclear family arrangements. Pooling mortality risks with equal treatment of all children may fend off, or even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779950
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Morbidity, Mortality, Health Expenditures and Annuitization
Tang, Kam Ki - 2010
In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759851
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Should We Subsidize Longevity?
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2009
This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763911
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R&D-Driven Medical Progress, Health Care Costs, and the Future of Human Longevity
Böhm, Sebastian - 2018
In this paper we set up an overlapping generations model of gerontological founded human aging that takes the interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921413
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Pharmaceuticai Innovation, Longevity, and Medical Expenditure in Greece, 1995-2010
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021
Longitudinal, disease-level data are used to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity (mean age at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315556
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The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Longevity and Medical Expenditure in Sweden, 1997-2010 : Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data
Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Pettersson, Billie - 2021
We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315886
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Longevity Risk and Taxation of Public Pensions
Lassila, Jukka - 2016
generations model, using stochastic mortality projections as inputs. In a traditional pension scheme with no automatic longevity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001164
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Job Security and Work Absence : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; Persson, Mats - 2021
We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important...
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