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Dementia vs. somatic conditions in the German LTC-system: A longitudinal analysis
Ehing, Daniel; Hagist, Christian - 2015
a dementia disorder and/or a long-term care status. Using claim data from a social sickness funds in Germany (AOK … in long-term care and dementia. In long-term care 50 percent of all women (men) are dead after 44 (25) months, whereas … about 57 (49) percent of all women (men) with dementia are alive after the end of our 48 month long observation period. The …
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Do bilateral social security agreements deliver on the portability of pensions and health care benefits? A summary policy paper on four migration corridors between EU and non-EU me...
Holzmann, Robert - 2016
This policy paper summarizes four corridor studies on bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) between four EU Member and two non-Member States, draws conclusions on their results, and offers recommendations. BSSAs between migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries are seen as the most...
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Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
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Do bilateral social security agreements deliver on the portability of pensions and health care benefits? A summary policy paper on four migration corridors between EU and non-EU me...
Holzmann, Robert - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-35
This policy paper summarizes four corridor studies on bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) between four European Union (EU) member and two nonmember states, draws conclusions on their results, and offers recommendations. BSSAs between migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries are...
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Status and Progress in Cross-Border Portability of Social Security Benefits
Holzmann, Robert; Wels, Jacques - 2018
The importance of cross-border portability of social benefits is increasing in parallel with the rise in the absolute number of international migrants and their share of the world population, and perhaps more importantly, with the rising share of world population that for some part of their life...
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Socioeconomic variation in the relationship between obesity and life expectancy
Kinge, Jonas Minet; Morris, Stephen - 2012
We investigate the relationship between obesity and life expectancy, and whether or not this relationship varies by socioeconomic status (SES). The underlying model is based on the "Pathways to health" framework in which SES affects health by modifying the relationship between lifestyles and...
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Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care
Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2022
We study the optimal long-term care policy when informal care can be provided by children in exchange for monetary transfers by their elderly parents. We consider a bargaining model with single-child families. Daughters have a lower labor market wage and a lower bargaining power within the...
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Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care
Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2022
We study the optimal long-term care policy when informal care can be provided by children in exchange for monetary transfers by their elderly parents. We consider a bargaining model with single-child families. Daughters have a lower labor market wage and a lower bargaining power within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427663
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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment
Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2010
During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...
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Devemos unificar as idades de elegibilidade das previdências urbana e rural?
Paiva, Luis Henrique; Stivali, Matheu; Rangel, Leonardo … - 2018
Rural workers in Brazil can access old-age pensions five years earlier than urban workers. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether unifying the ages of eligibility among these groups (a measure proposed in the last failed pension reform) makes sense from a comparative perspective, and...
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