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Home care for the elderly: the role of relatives, friends and neighbors

Kalwij, Adriaan; Pasini, Giacomo; Wu, Mingqin - In: Review of Economics of the Household 12 (2014) 2, pp. 379-404

concerning the increasing costs of formal care programs due to an aging population. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media …

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nursing homes

Norton, Edward C. - Palgrave Macmillan

Nursing homes are healthcare providers for persons, often elderly, who need assistance living with chronic illness. This article describes the main economic issues of supply and demand for nursing home care, including quality of care and long-term care insurance.Nursing home care is an important...

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Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Heitmueller, Axel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

More than 40% of the respondents in the British Household Panel Survey provide informal care at least for one year within the period 1991-2003 and carers are usually less likely to hold simultaneously a paid job. There is little evidence on the mechanism that links informal care provision and...

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Economic Implications of China's Demographics in the 21st Century

Cheng, Kevin C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This study assesses the economic implications of China's changing population in the 21st century using a numerical general equilibrium model. The simulations show that lower fertility rates yield lower saving rates. Since lower fertility rates reduce the future supply of labor, capital will...

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The Global Impact of Demographic Change

Callen, Tim; McKibbin, Warwick J.; Batini, Nicoletta - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

variant" of the United Nations population projections. We find that population aging in industrial countries will reduce …

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The Demographic Dividend; Evidence From the Indian States

Mody, Ashoka; Aiyar, Shekhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Large cohorts of young adults are poised to add to the working-age population of developing economies. Despite much interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. This study makes progress by focusing on India, which will be...

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Population Aging in Japan; Demographic Shock and Fiscal Sustainability

Mühleisen, Martin; Faruqee, Hamid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

The paper develops a general equilibrium framework to examine the economic implications of population aging in Japan … assess the impact of aging on Japan's government finances; and (ii) compare fiscal policy options with respect to their … implications of population aging in Japan. Particular attention is paid to aggregate saving behavior which is modeled on the basis …

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Are Theories of Aging Important? Models and Explanations in Gerontology at the Turn of the Century

Bengtson, Vern L.; Rice, Cara J.; Johnson, Malcolm L. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2000

Four questions are addressed: (1) What is theory and how is it important in the development of knowledge about aging …? (2) What is the state of theory in gerontology today? (3) Why has explicit theory development become devalued in … attention to theory development? …

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A Meta-analysis of the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand. A System of Equations Approach

Brons, Martijn; Nijkamp, Peter; Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Automobile gasoline demand can be expressed as a multiplicative function of fuel efficiency, mileage per car and car ownership. This implies a linear relationship between the price elasticity of total fuel demand and the price elasticities of fuel efficiency, mileage per car and car ownership....

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Likelihood-Ratio-Based Confidence Sets for the Timing of Structural Breaks

Eo, Yunjong; Morley, James - School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - 2011

We propose the use of likelihood-ratio-based confidence sets for the timing of structural breaks in parameters from time series regression models. The confidence sets are valid for the broad setting of a system of multivariate linear regression equations under fairly general assumptions about...

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