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The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance - Structure and Reform Options
Arntz, Melanie; Sacchetto, Ralf; Spermann, Alexander; … - 2021
In Germany, long-term care is an important issue due to an aging population and shrinking social networks that result … Germany. Long-term care insurance funds are generally linked to health insurance funds. The benefits are financed by virtue of … transition to a sustainable long-term care insurance in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317348
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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
Akaichi, Faical - 2019
We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, and more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in the United States with and without insurance.We study the valuation of the following insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864872
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Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care
Kondo, Ayako - 2019
This paper examines the effect of raising Long-term Care Insurance (LTCI) payments on employment and wages of workers in the long-term care (LTC) industry. Specifically, I use the change in the regional premium in 2012 as an exogenous shock to the insurance fee schedule: the change in the unit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868797
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Informal and Formal Care in Europe
Viitanen, Tarja K. - 2021
Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women's informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317196
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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
Akaichi, Faical; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Frank, Richard G. - 2022
We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, and more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in the United States with and without insurance.We study the valuation of the following insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083403
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Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer, Bjoern - 2023
market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356711
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128215
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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128221
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128222