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Life cycle economics with infectious and chronic diseases
Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2022
In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472349
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Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity
Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024
socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529184
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Institutional reforms and an incredible rise in old age employment
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2018
We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions. We apply rich administrative data and exploit a difference-indifferences approach. We compare the reference group of 40-44 year olds with constant benefit payout periods to older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929632
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Labor markets during the covid-19 crisis : a preliminary view
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206097
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Snaebjorn … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275959
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Reforms of an early retirement pathway in Germany and their labor market effects
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2021
We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697080
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Pensions and the nordic welfare model
Andersen, Torben M. - 2023
Within the frame of the Nordic welfare model, pension system design has taken very different routes. While the overall aims in terms of distribution and replacement rates are similar, the division of labour between defined benefit and contribution as well as pay-as-you-go versus funded schemes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234010
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Looking back in anger? : retirement and unemployment scarring
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014
Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as worsened working conditions, or increased future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349860
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Health and aging before and after retirement
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2021
Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650609
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The dynamics of Income-related health inequality among US children
Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal; Song, Jingya - 2011
We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301397