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The Rise in Life Expectancy, Health Trends Among the Elderly, and the Demand for Care - a Selected Literature Review
Lindgren, Bjorn - 2016
The objective is to review the evidence on (a) ageing and health and (b) the demand for health- and social services among the elderly. Issues are: does health status of the elderly improve over time, and how do the trends in health status of the elderly affect the demand for health- and elderly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984771
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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times : Understanding Pro-Cyclical Mortality
Stevens, Ann Huff - 2011
A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and attempt to identify the mechanisms behind it. Specifically, we distinguish between mechanisms that rely on fluctuations in own employment or time use and those involving factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117405
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Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? are the Japanese Any Different?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a “contest success function” and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991694
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A House of Her Own : Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women
Costa, Dora L. - 2021
I show that the trend towards single households among older nonmarried women, the majority of whom were widows, has been ongoing only since 1940 and investigate the factors that fostered the rise in separate living quarters since mid-century by examining the impact of Old Age Assistance on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221840
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Factor Substitution and Unobserved Factor Quality in Nursing Homes
Cawley, John; Grabowski, David C.; Hirth, Richard A. - 2021
This paper studies factor substitution in one important sector: the nursing home industry. Specifically, we measure the extent to which nursing homes substitute materials for labor when labor becomes relatively more expensive. From a policy perspective, factor substitution in this market is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248574
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Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability
Schick, Andreas - 2010
Taller workers receive a substantial wage premium. Studies extending back to the middle of the last century attribute the premium to non-cognitive abilities, which are associated with stature and rewarded in the labor market. More recent research argues that cognitive abilities explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135412
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The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?
Perotti, Roberto - 2011
Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118837
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Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden
Laun, Lisa - 2011
Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality … Statistics Sweden's Survey on Living Conditions (ULF, 1975-2005); (3) the utilization of health care from the inpatient register …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125163
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The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
Carlsson, Magnus - 2012
preparation for military service in Sweden. Both age at test date and number of days spent in school vary randomly across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099118
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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099824