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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 …
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The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour
Ohinata, Asako - 2015
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the elderly aged 65 and above residing in Scotland. Our...
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Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply : The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care
Hollingsworth, Bruce - 2017
We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...
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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2022
adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …
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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...
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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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Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?
Furtado, Delia - 2020
The growing healthcare needs of baby boomers require significant increases in the number or productivity of healthcare workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are associated with reduced wages of lower skilled nurses...
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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 …
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The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use : The Mediating Role of Household Composition
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2018
In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...
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Working Less to Take Care of Parents? Labor Market Effects of Family Long-Term Care in Four Latin American Countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, Maria; Ibarraran, Pablo; … - 2021
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide...
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