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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...
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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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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...
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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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In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this … early life health and later life home care use. We also account for selective attrition. Our empirical findings show that … general health problems in youth is an important health predictor for later life home care use. A large portion of this effect …
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This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in … Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older … for the oldest old. This decline is primarily attributable to low levels of perceived health. Once cohort effects are also …
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Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...
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's ageing population as a ticking time bomb which paradoxically is both a challenge and an opportunity for the country. Health … is considered an important determinant of economic growth and competitiveness. The health of the elderly population …
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We examine the health impacts of early access to public pension wealth by exploiting a unique policy in Singapore … anticipated and lagged health impacts, we adopt the donut regression discontinuity approach. Using nationally representative … monthly panel data, we find that early access to pension wealth improves self-reported overall health …
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healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative …-of-pocket medical costs, and perceived health. At its peak, doctor visits decreased by 30% and out-of-pocket medical spending decreased …-reported health and sleep quality, COVID–19 increased depressive symptoms by 4%. We argue that it is imperative to monitor COVID–19's …
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