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Work and well-being of informal caregivers in Europe
Heger, Dörte - 2014
Informal caregivers provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs, but the consequences of caregiving on caregivers are not yet fully understood. This paper illustrates the interrelation between caregiving and caregivers’ labour force participation, cognitive ability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417157
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Measurement and explanation of inequality in health and health care in low-income settings
Van Doorslaer, Eddy; O'Donnell, Owen - In: Health inequality and development, (pp. 20-44). 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749525
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Are Estimates of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Disease Artefactually Narrowed by Self-Reported Measures of Prevalence in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries? Findings fr...
Vellakkal, Sukumar; Millett, Christopher; Basu, Sanjay; … - 2015
India — and three ‘upper-middle-income countries’ — Mexico, Russia and South Africa. Results SES gradients in NCD prevalence …-reported diagnoses, but were attenuated or became negative when using symptom-based/criterion-based measures. In Mexico, Russia and South …-based angina were: in China: 0.07 vs -0.11, Ghana: 0.04 vs -0.21, India: 0.02 vs -0.16, Mexico: 0.19 vs -0.22, Russia: −0.01 vs -0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135885
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Social security of informal sector workers in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu
Naagarajan, R. - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 53 (2010) 2, pp. 359-380
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Essays on development economics in Brazil
Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271876
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Impacts of informal caregiving on caregiver employment, health, and family
Bauer, Jan M.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research on its impact on three areas of caregivers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487520
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Sick of my parents? : consequences of parental ill health on adult children
Norén, Anna - 2020
I study the consequences for labor market outcomes and sick leave of having an elderly parent in need of care. Using Swedish register data I compare the labor market outcome trajectories of adult children before and after their parent suffers a health shock. I find that employment and income of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154054
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Social security, labor supply and health of older workers : quasi-experimental evidence from a large reform
Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Shurtz, Ity; Weisburd, Sarit - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418598
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Social security, labor supply and health of older workers: quasi-experimental evidence from a large reform
Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Shurtz, Ity; Weisburd, Sarit - 2020
We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222199
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Social security, labor supply and health of older workers : quasi-experimental evidence from a large reform
Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Shurtz, Ity; Weisburd, Sarit - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225519