This paper analyses the role of the elderly couples’ past marital history in determining their current wealth holdings … women, in the “long run” it turns out to be statistically insignificant for both gender groups. Therefore, the elderly … allocated to that asset might significantly vary depending on the elderly couples’ marital experience. Most importantly, the …

This is the first paper of which we are aware that attemps to formally model the supply-supply behavior of elderly … individuals in a developing countryWithout broad-based public pension schemes, the majority of the elderly in developing countries …

What drives the labor supply decisions of the elderly in developing countries? To what extent do elderly parents use … is one of only a few studies that seeks to formally model elderly labor supply in the context of a developing country … children – either through transfers or coresidency – substitutes for elderly parents’ need to work. Thus, as in developed …

In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made … reduce elderly parents’ need to work. Taking the possible endogeneity of children’s transfers in the parents’ labour supply … into account and using maximum likelihood methods and Vietnamese data, we find that monetary transfers help the elderly …

elderly workers on their employees’ labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that … firms are an important tool to alleviate the negative effects of low labour market attachment of elderly workers in ageing …