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Informal care and the Great Recession
Costa-Font, Joan; Karlsson, Martin; Øien, Henning - 2015
Macroeconomic downturns can have an important impact on the availability of informal and formal long-term care. This paper investigates how the market for informal care changed during and after the Great Recession in Europe. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288788
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Morbidity, mortality, health expenditures and annuitization
Tang, Kam Ki (contributor); Zhang, Jie (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598833
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One pillar crumbling, the others too short : old-age provision in Germany
Werding, Martin - 2016
Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked contrast to the situation in Anglo-Saxon countries. It has advantages if labour markets are strong, e.g., following a quick recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429583
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Assessing the maintenance of savings sufficiency over the first decade of retirement
Haveman, Robert H.; Holden, Karen C.; Wolfe, Barbara L.; … - 2005
The adequacy of retirement savings is central to the U.S. debate over the effects of Social Security reform and pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003202784
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Do mobile pensioners threaten the deferred taxation of savings?
Meier, Volker; Wagener, Andreas - 2011
policy consists in full deferral of income taxes on savings and a full taxation of interest. Mobility of the old calls for … savings in combination with full tax exemption on capital income. -- deferred taxation ; income tax ; savings ; migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355155
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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, a behavioral approach
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2020
Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings … workers decide on their own individual savings, that the fully-funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of … pension savings are the only sources of capital supply. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154725
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The 2008 Chilean reform to first-pillar pensions
Valdés Prieto, Salvador - 2009
Chile approved in early 2008 the replacement of her two current non-contributory subsidies for the old poor for a unified program with a pioneering design, with phase-in ending in 2012. This paper describes the political economy of this reform and evaluates it with regards to efficiency and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806091
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Residential mobility of the European elderly
Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2010
With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798224
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Are the elderly a threat to educational expenditures?
Cattaneo, M. Alejandra (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598836
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Diabetes and labor market exits : evidence from the Health & Retirement Study (HRS)
Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2016
The objective of this paper is to estimate the effect of diabetes on labor market exit using longitudinal data from the 1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the hazard of leaving employment among individuals who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444891