In 1995, Germany established a two-tier compulsory long-term care insurance scheme. While the public branch, with its pay-as-you-go character, lacks sustainable financing due to demographic circumstances, the capital-funded private branch is supposed to be sustainably financed through its...

Using Norwegian administrative register data, we show that having a lone parent in the terminal stage of life has a small negative effect on the offspring's labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margins. While the effects at the intensive margin are reversed after the parent's...

Informal care is a cornerstone of long-term care for older adults but may entail substantial psychological costs for caregivers. Using seven waves (2004-2022) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for 27 countries, we estimate the causal effect of providing regular...

This assessment focuses solely on government expenditures on sustainable long-term care (LTC) for the elderly, as requested by the The Government of North Macedonia (GoNM). It does not attempt to calculate the costs of the provision of uncompensated informal care by family and friends, nor does...