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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms

Milligan, Kevin S.; Wise, David A. - 2011

the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of … formal analysis of disability insurance programs, with this key question: Given health status, to what extent are the …

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Healthy, wealthy, wise, and happy? : an exploratory analysis of the interplay between aging and subjective well-being in low and middle income countries

Flores, Gabriela; Ingenhaag, Michael; Maurer, Jürgen - 2013

In this paper, we address the relationship between age and several dimension of subjective wellbeing. Whilst literature generally finds a U-shaped age-profile in subjective well-being, this agepattern might only hold after controlling for objective life circumstances. The observed U-shaped...

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Disability and Poverty in Developing Countries : A Snapshot from the World Health Survey

Mitra, Sophie; Posarac, Aleksandra; Vick, Brandon C. - 2014

The association between disability and poverty has been noted intuitively, although there is little systematic evidence … to support this claim, mainly due to a lack of quality data on disability. This paper attempts to fill a knowledge gap on … disability and poverty in developing countries by using a unique data set, the World Health Survey, which has comparable measures …

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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine...

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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

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Will you still need me - when I'm 64?

van Ours, Jan C. - 2009

For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individual level by analyzing data on running and publishing in economic journals. Furthermore...

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