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Bridge unemployment in Germany : response in labour supply to an increased early retirement age
Giesecke, Matthias; Kind, Michael - 2013
This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed individuals and therefore serves as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722390
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The impact of demographic change, co-morbidity and European care policies on the choice of care arrangement
Meng, Annika - 2010
Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so far. However, regressors that represent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934988
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The impact of aging on future healthcare expenditure
Steinmann, Lukas (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor);  … - 2006 - Revised version
The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports … time-to-death is an endogenous determinant of HCE. Third, it investigates the contribution of population aging to the … not the cost of dying is accounted for, thus qualifying the "red herring" hypothesis. -- Health econometrics ; Aging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003216021
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Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes
Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2016
In diesem Papier wird der langfristige Einfluss von häuslicher Pflege auf das Arbeitsangebot von Frauen (bis zu acht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549653
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Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities
Freise, Diana; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2022
We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this end, we exploit plant closures and use flexible event-study estimations together with an experimentally elicited measure of fluid intelligence, namely word recall. We find that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411839
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Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement : regional variation across Europe
Börnhorst, Claudia; Heger, Dörte; Mensen, Anne - 2019
, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with full information on childhood and later life measures of health, educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998811
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Retirement and loneliness
Guthmuller, Sophie; Heger, Dörte; Hollenbach, Johannes; … - 2023
, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across … Fragebogendaten der Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. Um einen kausalen Zusammenhang aufzuzeigen, nutzen wir die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466575
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Matching, wage rigidities and efficient severance pay
Fella, Giulio - 2012
This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668414
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Killing them with kindness : negative distributional externalities of increasing UI benefits
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009
Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and unemployment benefits using simulated increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861427
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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance
Korfhage, Thorben - 2019
persistenten Effekte von informeller Altenpflege auf das Arbeitsangebot der pflegenden Personen. Daraus ergeben sich negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041571