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Too old to work, too young to retire?
Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268412
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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe and model the determinants of interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period, with a particularly severe decline occurring in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262677
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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the … for gender equality. Also, in a region that is aging faster than any other in the world, social trends (e.g., smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298761
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The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries
Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor; Orszag, J. Michael - 2003
Despite substantial increases in longevity, the age of retirement in the industrialized countries has steadily fallen throughout most of the 20th century. In France, for instance, the employment-population ratio of 55-64 year-old males fell from 74% in 1970 to 38.5% in 2000. In most other OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261553
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The impact of aging on future healthcare expenditure
Steinmann, Lukas (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor);  … - 2006 - Revised version
The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports … time-to-death is an endogenous determinant of HCE. Third, it investigates the contribution of population aging to the … not the cost of dying is accounted for, thus qualifying the "red herring" hypothesis. -- Health econometrics ; Aging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003216021
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"Should I Pay for You or for Myself"? The Optimal Level and Composition of Retirement Benefit Systems
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Cardoso, Pedro - 2001
Feldstein [1985] posed the questions of what would be the optimal level of retirement benefit, and what would be the optimal mix between the pay-as-you-go system and the funded pension system under the assumption of an exogenous interest rate. We reconsider the problem with the addition of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276956
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Simulaciones del costo de un sistema de apoyo para los adultos mayores en situación de dependencia en México
González-González, César Alfredo; Stampini, Marco; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154399
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Long-term care in Latin America and the Caribbean? : theory and policy considerations
Bloeck, Martín Caruso; Galiani, Sebastián; … - 2017
a rapidly aging one, especially since the region’s aging cohorts are more prone to experience a decline in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785748
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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance
Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer, Björn - 2023
We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance scheme, informal elderly care has adverse and persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014330997
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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico
Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024
Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients, payers, and providers. We conceptualize and empirically estimate the prevalence and cost of prolonged stays among elderly hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051366