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Compression of Morbidity : A Promising Approach to Alleviate the Societal Consequences of Population Aging
Klijs, Bart; Nusselder, Wilma; Mackenbach, Johan - 2010
strategy is aiming for compression of morbidity. Some of the initial conditions for a compression of morbidity have been … age of 85. Trend studies have found no consistent evidence for a compression of morbidity. At the department of Public … smoking and physical inactivity increased the incidence of cardiovascular disease, as well as mortality with and without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194167
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Changes in Morbidity by Proximity to Death over Time : Evidence from Europe
Heger, Dörte - 2016
good or in poor health will drastically influence the development of health care costs as morbidity status rather than age … is associated with a compression or an extension of morbidity is still sparse and inconclusive. In this paper, we analyse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997216
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Population Ageing and Inflation with Endogenous Money Creation
Fedotenkov, Igor - 2016
This paper provides an explanation as to why population ageing is associated with deflationary processes. For this reason we create an overlapping-generations model (OLG) with money created by credits (inside money) and intergenerational trade. In other words, we combine a neoclassical OLG model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997077
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Stabilizing Pay-as-You-Go Pension Schemes in the Face of Rising Longevity and Falling Fertility : An Application to the Netherlands
Heeringa, Willem; Bovenberg, A. Lans - 2011
Rising longevity and falling fertility threaten the sustainability of pay-as-you-go pension chemes. This paper shows that maintaining the intergenerational balance in the Dutch pay-as-you-go pension scheme in the face of increased longevity since the introduction of the scheme in 1957 would have...
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On the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Fonseca, Raquel; Galama, Titus J.; … - 2010
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196951
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International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200788
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Ageing and Employers' Perceptions of Labour Costs and Productivity : A Survey Among European Employers
Conen, Wieteke - 2012
Purpose: This paper examines employers' perceptions of changes of the labour cost-productivity gap due to the ageing of the workforce, the effects of tenure wages and employment protect ion on the perceived gap and whether a perceived labour cost-productivity gap affects employers' recruitment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107178
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Employers' Attitudes and Actions Towards the Extension of Working Lives in Europe
Conen, Wieteke - 2012
Purpose: Although policy makers have put a lot of effort in the promotion of older workers' labour force participation, quantitative empirical knowledge about employers' views towards extension of working lives is limited. The aim of this study is to improve our understanding of employers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107254
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What Drives Pension Worries in Europe? A Multilevel Analysis
Hershey, Douglas A. - 2010
Nations in Europe have been developing rapidly since the formation of the European Union (EU), not only socially and demographically, but economically as well. One question a number of countries will face during this period of structural transition will be how (and how well) they are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146591
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Optimal Asymmetric Taxation in a Two-Sector Model with Population Ageing
Fedotenkov, Igor - 2015
This paper presents a simple condition for optimal asymmetric labour (capital) taxation/subsidization in a two-sector model with logarithmic utilities and Cobb-Douglas production functions, linked to demographic factors: fertility rate and longevity. The paper shows that depending on parameter...
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