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Work and well-being of informal caregivers in Europe

Heger, Dörte - 2014

Informal caregivers provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs, but the consequences of caregiving on caregivers are not yet fully understood. This paper illustrates the interrelation between caregiving and caregivers’ labour force participation, cognitive ability,...

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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply

Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011

Das Arbeitsangebot wird grundsätzlich durch zwei Faktoren bestimmt: Die Partizipation am Arbeitsmarkt (extensives … Arbeitsangebot) und die Anzahl der gearbeiteten Stunden der Beschäftigten (intensives Arbeitsangebot). Auf Basis der … gesamte Arbeitsangebot ist. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf signifikante Unterschiede im Arbeitsangebot zwischen den Ländern hin …

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Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement : regional variation across Europe

Börnhorst, Claudia; Heger, Dörte; Mensen, Anne - 2019

Many studies have shown that childhood circumstances can have long term consequences that persist until old age. To better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial situation during childhood on quality of life after...

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Does the negative effect of caregiving on work persist over time?

Heger, Dörte; Korfhage, Thorben - 2017

kann. Zusätzlich zu kurzfristigen Effekten der Pflegetätigkeit auf das Arbeitsangebot der Pflegenden sind außerdem mittel …

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The impact of demographic change, co-morbidity and European care policies on the choice of care arrangement

Meng, Annika - 2010

Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so far. However, regressors that represent...

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Husband’s unemployment and wife’s labor supply : the added worker effect across Europe

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Rulff, Christian - 2014

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women’s labor supply to their husband’s loss of employment – the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative...

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...

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The relationship between political instability and economic growth in advanced economies : empirical evidence from a panel VAR and a dynamic panel FE-IV analysis

Dirks, Maximilian W.; Schmidt, Torsten - 2023

This paper analyzes the relationship between political instability and economic growth in advanced economies. Using a panel of 34 advanced economies from 1996 to 2020, we first employ a panel VAR estimated via System GMM, which allows us to explore the endogenous relationship between economic...

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Care choices in Europe : to each according to his needs?

Heger, Dörte; Korfhage, Thorben - 2016

Growing long-term care (LTC) needs represent a major challenge for our ageing societies. Understanding how utilization patterns of different types of care are influenced by LTC policies or changes in the population composition such as age patterns or health can provide helpful insight on how to...

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Changes in morbidity over time : evidence from Europe

Heger, Dörte; Kolodziej, Ingo W. K. - 2016

The elderly are the main beneficiaries of recent gains in life expectancy in the EU. Whether the additional life time is spent in good or in poor health will drastically influence the development of health care costs as morbidity status rather than age per se determines an individual’s need...

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