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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...

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Health, productivity, and ageing

Lis, Maciej; Magda, Iga - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2014

We provide a comparative cross-country analysis of individual age-wage proles for different health statuses. Using semi-parametric regressions run on EU-SILC data we aim at answering the question on the relationship b etween individual health and pro ductivity and its changes in the life cycle,...

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Employment in Poland 2008. Work over the life course

Bukowski, Maciej Krzysztof; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych

and population ageing, is a key problem for the future of Poland and Europe. We discuss the impact of demographic changes … population ageing on the economy and to ensure the stability of the age structure in Poland in the long term. Part I discusses … ageing in the fi elds of labour market policy, social policy and immigration policy. They also provide a macroeconomic …

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Six dimensions of retirement ages : Old age pensions in Germany, 1880-1990

Smolenaars, E. - Tilburg University, Work and Organization Research Centre - 1995

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Economic and fiscal management under the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administration

Tanaka, Hideaki - In: OECD Journal on Budgeting 14 (2014) 1, pp. 9-33

Japan experienced a major change of government in September 2009. It was a remarkable political event, because Japanese politics was dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in almost all the years following the end of World War ll. The new coalition government led by the Democratic Party...

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The Dynamic Fiscal Effects of Demographic Shift: The Case of Australia

Kudrna, George; Tran, Chung; Wooland, Alan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2014

summarised as follows. First, the demographic shifts towards population ageing lead to a change in the tax base from labor income …

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Early-life circumstances and late-life income

Paccagnella, Omar; Garrouste, Christelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper aims at evaluating and comparing across European countries the influence of early-life circumstances, like childhood disparities and educational attainments, on incomes in later life. Using life-history data from SHARELIFE, country-specific structural relationships among childhood...

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Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gasparini, Leonardo; Alejo, Javier; Haimovich, Francisco; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of income, employment, education, health and access to services vis-à-vis...

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Financial Sustainability of Pension Systems in the European Union

Bayar, Yılmaz - In: European Research Studies Journal XVI (2013) 3, pp. 46-70

taking into account the ageing and the negative effects of global financial crisis and the ongoing Eurozone sovereign debt … sustainability of pension systems in consideration of pension expenditures, ageing and the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Findings …

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Trust, self-rated health and mortality: A longitudinal study among ageing people in Southern Finland

Nummela, Olli; Raivio, Risto; Uutela, Antti - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 10, pp. 1639-1643

trust, SRH and mortality among ageing people. The present study examined whether low trust at the baseline predicted higher … all-cause mortality in a follow-up of over five years among ageing people, and whether the trust to mortality relationship … between trust and mortality. Thus, low trust is a sensitive indicator of higher mortality risk among ageing men. …

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