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examines how caregiving affects the well-being of retirees who are caregivers. Different caregiving activities are examined … caregiving, most caregiving negatively affects the well-being of retirees. This suggests that policies that remove some of the … caregiving burden from retirees would increase their well-being. …
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demand-side subsidies such as unconditional caregiving allowances (cash benefits designed either to incentivize the provision … the inception in 2007 (and its reduction in 2012) of a universal caregiving allowance on both the supply of informal care …, and subsequent intergenerational transfer flows. We find evidence of a 30% rise in informal caregiving after the subsidy …
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or the exchange motive (much stronger than in the United States), but we find that their caregiving behavior is also …
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Informal eldercare is often supplied by family members, more so in Asia than in the West. Children and their parents as well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or responding to material incentives. A first implication...
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We study the effect of demand-side subsidies to old age care recipients on both caregiving and intergenerational … caregiving allowance in 2007 and its subsequent reduction in 2012. We find that the introduction of a caregiving allowance of a … magnitude up to 530€ in 2011 increased the probability of informal caregiving by 32% and the intensity of care in 13.5 days …
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This paper examines the effect of the timing of mothers' daily work schedules on the amount of maternal caregiving she … engages in on that same day. We look at total caregiving time on weekdays, early morning and evening caregiving time on … weekdays, and total caregiving time on weekends. Since the timing of employment is, in part, a choice made by mothers, which is …
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institutional features of SSDI. Counterfactual experiments indicate that caregiving needs substantially attenuate spousal labor …
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, caregiving, and improvements in health outcomes for those likely to provide family care. Using our preferred estimation method …
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evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free … into caregiving (we find similar wellbeing effects among caregivers at baseline and caregivers throughout the sample), and …
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evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free … into caregiving (we find similar wellbeing effects among caregivers at baseline and caregivers throughout the sample), and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353414