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Fair long-term care insurance
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019
The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
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Fair long-term care insurance
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019
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The domestic welfare loss of Syrian Civil War : an equivalent income approach
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2017
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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017
While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017
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Policy implications of changing longevity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 1, pp. 178-212
Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this article is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
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Nursing homes and mortality in Europe : uncertain causality
Flawinne, Xavier; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2022
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Nursing homes and mortality in Europe : uncertain causality
Flawinne, Xavier; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2022
want to check whether nursing homes were lending themselves to excess mortality even before the pandemic. Controlling for a … in mortality between those two samples is to be attributed to the way nursing homes are designed and organised. Using … matching methods, we observe excess mortality in Belgium, France, Germany Luxembourg, Switzerland, Estonia and Czech Republic …
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The domestic welfare loss of Syrian civil war : an equivalent income approach
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991081
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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991765