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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...
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The political economy of public investment when population is aging : a panel cointegration analysis
Jäger, Philipp; Schmidt, Torsten - 2015
aging on public investment. Moreover, the estimation of an error correction model reveals long-run Granger causality running … exclusively from aging to investment. Our results are robust to the inclusion of additional control variables typically considered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519083
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Changes in morbidity over time : evidence from Europe
Heger, Dörte; Kolodziej, Ingo W. K. - 2016
The elderly are the main beneficiaries of recent gains in life expectancy in the EU. Whether the additional life time is spent in good or in poor health will drastically influence the development of health care costs as morbidity status rather than age per se determines an individual’s need...
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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
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Lifelong Employability : Thriving in an Ageing Society
Dengler, Philippa - 2019
to take control of their individual employability for a longer life. The practical implications benefit individuals, the … companies they work for, and society as a whole. Contents Why Lifelong Employability Is Becoming Important Key Elements of … Employability Empirical Method and Results Typological Model and Practical Implications Target Groups Researchers and students in …
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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time
Okoampah, Sarah - 2016
This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The empirical findings suggest that male workers with medium and high degrees of occupational specialization who were born at the peak of the baby boom earn at least 5.3% lower wages than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520610
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Do red herrings swim in circles? : controlling for the endogeneity of time to death
Felder, Stefan (contributor); Werblow, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
Studies on the effect of ageing on health care expenditures (HCE) have revealed the importance of controlling for time-to-death (TTD). These studies, however, are subject to possible endogeneity if HCE influences remaining life expectancy. This paper introduces a ten year observational period on...
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Essays on Housing and Pensions : A European Perspective
Mueller, Thomas - 2019
Demographic trends put a burden on EU pension provision. As the sustainability of pension systems is addressed by current pension reforms, lower benefit levels are projected. In this scenario, households may want to consider supplementing their public pension income. As their own residence is on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396063
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Ageing by feet? : regional migration, neighbourhood choice and local demographic change in German cities
Neumann, Uwe - 2016
In countries with an ageing population, regional migration may accentuate local progress in demographic change. This paper investigates whether and to what extent diversity in ageing among urban neighbourhoods in Germany was reinforced by regional migration during the past two decades. The...
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The impact of demographic change, co-morbidity and european care policies on the Choice of care arrangement
Meng, Annika - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757275