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-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and household services, a term that refers to … and household services by older natives may help maintain health through a variety of pathways including reduced …
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We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a … be flexibly estimated across age groups. We find that the Scottish policy reduced the average household saving by about … £7,200. Moreover, the estimated effects are heterogeneous across age groups of the head of household: these effects are …
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Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
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understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of temporary, partial-household … entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …
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This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … different sets of weaker assumptions. Using Mexican panel data, I show that standard estimates ignoring the intra-household …
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household earnings potential is disproportionally due to one partner, and families react equally strongly to a male and a female …
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education-induced migration, the per capita household consumption increases by 56.7%, the savings rate decreases by 40.3%, and … remittances sent home decline by about 1.3 monthly household incomes, however, there are no effects on income, food consumption …
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of Population for the years 1991 through 2006. We focus on those migrating as children, to assess their process of … through which age at immigration affects fertility. College graduates arriving to Canada anytime before adulthood behave as …
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Male immigrants are observed to be disproportionately employed in ICT information and communication technology (ICT) industries and occupations. A measure of basic ICT skills is employed to document differences in skill levels and labour market earnings across immigration classes and categories...
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, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain …
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