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"More than one red herring"? : heterogeneous effects of ageing on healthcare utilisation

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2020

We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct … effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD …) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing ( so-called 'red herring' hypothesis). We exploit individual level end of …

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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan and South Korea

Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017

We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone...

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Addressing longevity heterogeneity in pension scheme design and reform

Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura; Holzmann, … - 2016

This paper demonstrates that the link between heterogeneity in longevity and lifetime income across countries is mostly high and often increasing; that it translates into an implicit tax/subsidy, with rates reaching 20 percent and higher in some countries; that such rates risk perverting...

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On welfare effects of increasing retirement age

Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

We develop an OLG model with realistic assumptions about longevity to analyze the welfare effects of raising the retirement age. We look at a scenario where an economy has a pay-as-you-go defined benefit scheme and compare it to a scenario with defined contribution schemes (funded or notional)....

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Global pension systems and their reform : worldwide drivers, trends, and challenges

Holzmann, Robert - 2012

Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide financial crisis and the adjustment to an uncertain “new normal” will make future pension systems...

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Longevity, life-cycle behavior and pension reform

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2011

How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...

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Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC

Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2016

-sectional data arises from offsetting ageing and cohort effects. In these countries more recent birth cohorts have lower levels of …

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Greying the budget : ageing and preferences over public policies

Mello, Luiz R. de; Schotte, Simone; Tiongson, Erwin R.; … - 2016

public expenditures may intensify in ageing economies. …

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Use it or lose it : Irish evidence

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2016

from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Ordinary least square (OLS) regressions show a significant negative …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455644

Marital status and retirement : an empirical study for France

Doorley, Karina; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2019

We argue that retirement from work may affect marital status according to the predictions of quite standard economic models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in...

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