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Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
Bauer, Jan Michael; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the … implications for family life remain under investigated. The research findings also differ strongly among subgroups, although they …
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Technological Progress with Segmented Factor Markets and Welfare Implications for the Urban Poor
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - Centre for Research in Economic Development and …
Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a four-sector general equilibrium framework with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199623
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Subjective Well-Being in the Southern Cone: Health, Income and Family
Cid, Alejandro; Ferres, Daniel; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2008
, family composition, health and religion over subjective well-being in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay … American countries. Main obtained results show a positive correlation between higher levels of income and health,being married …
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Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy … are employed to separately estimate the value of family childcare and care of the elderly. The results show that, overall …, in Italy the number of people performing family care work is higher, also due to the larger population. Italians …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149159
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Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: a Comparison between Italy and Poland
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2011
The study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy … and the market replacement approaches are employed to measure family care work distinguishing between childcare and care … difference in the value of unpaid family care work, which is higher in Italy, is to be attributed to the discrepancy in hourly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799962
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Abwanderung und familiäre Pflege
Liepke, Thomas; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 14 (2007) 06, pp. 30-32
Nach Angaben des Generations and Gender Surveys wünschen sich mehr als 80 % der über 50-Jährigen in den neuen Ländern bei Hilfe- oder Pflegebedürftigkeit eine Betreuung durch die eigenen Kinder. Dies ist keineswegs reines Wunschdenken, denn tatsächlich spielen die eigenen Kinder bei der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010200
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The Changing Contexts of Family Care in Canada
Rosenthal, Carolyn J. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1997
changed considerably. This paper examines changes over this time period which affect family support to older adults. Specific … policy changes in health and long-term care as these affect older Canadians and their families. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181119
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The Changing Contexts of Family Care in Canada
Rosenthal, Carolyn J. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1997
changed considerably. This paper examines changes over this time period which affect family support to older adults. Specific … policy changes in health and long-term care as these affect older Canadians and their families. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196121
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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