This article studies the determinants of the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for Long-Term Care (LTC) insurance coverage. Two alternatives are considered: one compulsory, financed through taxes, the other purchased on a voluntary basis and paid through a premium. WTP was elicited through open-ended...

<i> La valorizzazione dei beni di archeologia industriale: il caso del sito di Porto Flavia in Sardegna </i> (di Silvia Balia, Rinaldo Brau, Elisabetta Strazzera) - ABSTRACT: This paper presents a contingent valuation study set up to estimate the recreational value of an old mine, Porto Flavia, a site...

ABSTRACT This paper investigates long‐term home care utilization in Europe. Data from the first wave of the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) on formal (nursing care and paid domestic help) and informal care (support provided by relatives) are used to study the probability and...

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This paper aims at assessing whether dualistic mechanisms represent a significant component of the aggregate labour productivity convergence observed across the European regions in the 1980s. The potential of an explanation of convergence based - in part, at least - on the existence of dualism...