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Bessere Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Pflege kann Zielkonflikt zwischen Renten- und Pflegepolitik lösen

Fischer, Björn; Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: DIW Wochenbericht 87 (2020) 46, pp. 853-860

Pflegebedürftige lassen sich bevorzugt von Angehörigen oder FreundInnen zuhause pflegen. Dieser sogenannten informellen Pflege wird auch im Gesetz Vorrang vor formeller, stationärer Pflege eingeräumt. Für viele Angehörige entsteht jedoch ein Zeitkonflikt zwischen der Pflegearbeit und ihrer...

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Health of Elderly Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2020

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...

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Asymmetric Information, Strategic Transfers, and the Design of Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2020

We study the design of social long-term care (LTC) insurance when informal care is exchange-based. Parents do not observe their children's cost of providing care, which is continuously distributed over some interval. They choose a rule specifying transfers that are conditional on the level of...

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Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers

Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh; Van Houtven, Courtney - 2021

Health insurance expansions can exert wellbeing effects on individuals who provide informal care to their loved ones, reducing their experience of depression. This study exploits evidence from the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion to examine the effects on the mental wellbeing of...

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Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina - 2022

Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for caregivers can influence individuals' early retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform...

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Juggling paid work and elderly care provision in Japan: Does a flexible work environment help family caregivers cope?

Niimi, Yoko - 2021

to make the necessary arrangements for accommodating the sudden and unexpected demand for elderly care in their daily …

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Influence of gender determinants on informal care and health service utilization in Spain: Ten years after the approval of the equality law

Sánchez-Recio, Raquel; García-Ael, Cristina; Topa, … - In: Administrative Sciences 11 (2021) 2, pp. 1-21

The existence of gender inequalities in health, in the use of health services, and in the development of informal care has been demonstrated throughout scientific literature. In Spain, a law was passed in 2007 to promote effective equality between men and women. Despite this, different studies...

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Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh; Houtven, Courtney … - 2021

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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the role of migrant care workers

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2021

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks that increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...

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Family composition and transitions into long-term care services among the elderly

Syse, Astri; Artamonova, Alyona; Thomas, Michael J.; … - 2021

Elderly's use of long-term care (LTC) services are likely to be influenced by family members, but there is scarce … examine how partners and adult children influence elderly's LTC use, taking regional differences into account. We employ … logistic discrete-time hazard regression models on linked registry data for complete cohorts of elderly individuals (65+ years …

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