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On financing retirement, health, and long-term care in Japan
McGrattan, Ellen R.; Miyachi, Kazuaki; Peralta-Alva, Adrian - 2018
Japan faces the problem of how to finance retirement, health, and long-term care expenditures as the population ages … raising social security contributions, debt financing, and a uniform increase in health and long-term care copayments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978385
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Old age savings and house price shocks
McGee, Rory - 2021
savings, consumption, and bequests? Answering this question requires separating precautionary savings, bequest motives, and … the desire to remain in one's home. I develop and estimate a structural model of retirement savings decisions with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705128
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Health and long-term care insurance wealth in Austria
Koman, Reinhard; Hofmarcher, Maria M.; Holzmann, Robert - 2025
health and long-term care insurance wealth in Austria and add that to conventional wealth estimates for Austria to achieve a … of health and long-term care insurance wealth is substantial, namely EUR 238,000 at the household level. It is comparable … financial wealth minus debt (EUR 250,000). As regards distributive characteristics, health and longterm care insurance wealth is …
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Age and health related inheritance taxation
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021
This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from...
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The unintended effect of Medicaid aging waivers on informal caregiving
Liu, Yinan; Zai, Xianhua - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013548959
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Long-term Care in the United States
Gruber, Jonathan; McGarry, Kathleen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The population of the United States, as with the rest of the world, is aging rapidly, with the most rapid growth occurring among the age 85 and older population, those who rely most on long-term care. In this chapter, we review the delivery and financing of long-term care in the U.S. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437012
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Long-term Care Around the World
Gruber, Jonathan; McGarry, Kathleen; Hanzel, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The developed world is in the midst of an enormous demographic transition, with life expectancy increasing and fertility falling, leading to a rapid aging of the population. This trend has critical implications for long-term care around the world. This paper serves as the introduction to a...
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Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England
Crawford, Rowena; Stoye, George; Zaranko, Ben - 2020
that the austerity programme successfully reduced combined public spending on health and long-term care, but had adverse … effects on the health of vulnerable users. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427114
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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico
Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024
savings of approximately US$174 million per year in Brazil and US$45 million in Mexico. …
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Long-term care, wealth, and health of the disabled elderly living in the community
Garber, Alan M. - 1987
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