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The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour

Ohinata, Asako - 2015

We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the elderly aged 65 and above residing in Scotland. Our...

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Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply : The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care

Hollingsworth, Bruce - 2017

We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...

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The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce

Nolan, Anne - 2018

A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share of self-employment among older labour force participants. This pattern of higher self-employment rates at the end of the labour market career may reflect lower rates of...

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Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors Among the Elderly?

Salm, Martin - 2010

This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the consumption and saving behavior of the elderly. Previous studies find that the large wealth disparities observed among the elderly cannot be explained by differences in...

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American Older Adults in the Time of COVID-19 : Vulnerability Types, Aging Attitudes, and Emotional Responses

Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmad, … - 2022

With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...

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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

Kast, Felipe - 2012

While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...

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Mortgage Finance in Central and Eastern Europe : Opportunity or Burden?

Beck, Thorsten - 2010

determinants of access to mortgage finance. It also examines whether mortgage holders were more likely to suffer financial distress … compared with non-mortgage holders in the period before the global financial crisis. The analysis does not find any systematic … evidence that mortgage holders are financially more vulnerable than renters or outright owners; in fact, the incidence of …

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Property Value Assessment Growth Limits, Tax Base Erosion and Regional In-Migration

Skidmore, Mark - 2010

In 1994 a limit on the growth of property values for tax purposes was imposed in Michigan. One consequence of the newly imposed assessment growth cap was an emerging differential in tax prices between potential new property owners and long-time property owners. The purpose of this paper is to...

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Welfare Effects of Property Taxation

Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2021

We analyze the welfare implications of property taxation. Using a sufficient statistics approach, we show that the tax incidence depends on how housing prices, labor and other types of incomes as well as public services respond to property tax changes. Empirically, we exploit the German...

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When Do Nations Tax? The Adoption of Property Tax Codes by First Nations in Canada

Feir, Donna; Jones, Maggie; Scoones, W. David - 2022

Recent changes in Canadian legislation have enabled First Nations to adopt property taxation and other forms of taxation on reserves, thereby allowing them to directly finance their local governments through local tax revenues. In this paper, we compile data on the passage of First Nations tax...

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