Using the American Life Panel, we conduct an experiment to investigate the relations between various evaluative and experienced well-being measures based on the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, the Gallup Wellbeing Index, and a 12-item Hedonic Well-Being module. We find that all evaluative...

Preparing for the end of life, especially for the prospect of needing long-term are, is an important issue facing older Americans. Those who reach age 65 have a 40% chance of going into a nursing home in their remaining lifetime, and about 10% of those who do will stay there for at least five...

This paper explores how and why the probability of retirement differs between self-employed and wage-and-salary workers. It finds self-employed workers are less likely to retire than wage-and-salary ones, and that differences in retirement incomes, health, productivity, job characteristics, and...

A growing number of countries are developing or reforming pension and health policies in response to population ageing and to enhance the welfare of their citizens. The adoption of different policies by different countries has resulted in several natural experiments. These offer unusual...

This paper investigates how educational attainment may affect the prevalence of disability among older Koreans, a population for whom the association between health and education has been little studied. It performs descriptive and logistic regression analysis on five nationally representative...

The authors examined the economic well-being of the Korean elderly and their reliance on public and private transfers. Under-developed public transfer programs are at the center of heated political debates, and better understanding of economic well-being and the relation between public and...

Korean Abstract:국내 자영업계는 사업체 수와 고용 규모 면에서 높은 경제적 중요성을 지님에도 불구하고 심각하고 지난한 경영난에서 좀처럼 벗어나지 못하고 있다. 그렇다면 경영난의 기저에는 어떠한 요인들이 자리하고...

India is experiencing a rapid demographic and epidemiologic transition. Among a growing aging population, non-communicable diseases, including dementia, are increasingly prevalent, but our understanding of cognitive health is quite limited. Recent studies suggest that women in developed...

This paper analyzes how franchise cont ract conditions are influenced by business structures as well as how contract conditions affect producer surplus by utilizing Korean franchise Information Disclosure Documents for the years 2014-2016. We find that franchise fees tend to increase in line...

Korean Abstract:유통업자와 납품업자가 맺는 거래는 크게 네 가지 유형(직매입, 위수탁, 매장임대차, 특약매입) 중 하나로 진행된다. 이러한 계약유형은 유통업자와 납품업자의 권한과 책임을 규정하는 틀이자, 생산 및 판매를...