Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so far. However, regressors that represent...

Seit dem Jahr 1995 existiert in Deutschland die Pflegeversicherung als eigenständige Säule der sozialen Sicherung. Vor dem Hintergrund der sich vollziehenden demografischen Entwicklung offenbart sich zunehmender Reformbedarf und es sind Lösungsansätze vonnöten, welche die Finanzierbarkeit...

This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that...

This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that...