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Thinking of incentivizing care? : the effect of demand subsidies on informal caregiving and intergenerational transfers

Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - 2016

We still know little about what motivates the informal care arrangements provided in old age. The introduction of demand-side subsidies such as unconditional caregiving allowances (cash benefits designed either to incentivize the provision of informal care, or compensate for the loss of...

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Thinking of incentivizing care? : the effect of demand subsidies on informal caregiving and intergenerational transfers

Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - 2018

We study the effect of demand-side subsidies to old age care recipients on both caregiving and intergenerational transfer decisions. We exploit two quasi-natural experiments referring to the inception of a universal and unconditional caregiving allowance in 2007 and its subsequent reduction in...

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Universalizing the Access to Long-term Care : Evidence from Spain

Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Spain together with Scotland are two countries that exhibit the largest expansions in long term care (LTC) in the last two decades, universalizing subsidies and supports. This paper is part of a global effort to provide a snapshot of the trends in LTC use and access, as well as the financing,...

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El futuro del sistema de pensiones : demografía, mercado de trabajo y reformas

Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Viola, Analía - In: Papeles de economía española 176 (2023), pp. 93-111

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The incentive effects of minimum pensions : minimum pension programs reduce poverty in old age but they can also reduce the labor supply of low-income workers

Jiménez-Martín, Sergi - 2014

minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …The main purpose of minimum pension benefit programs and old-age social assistance programs is to guarantee a minimum … standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the …

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