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Optimal Retirement Age: Death Hazard Rate Approach

Linden, Mikael - 2024

retirement age decision. Optimal retirement age results are derived with a death hazard rate function having non …-negative duration dependence. At the optimum age, the retiree wants to have a compensation in the form of early retirement for his …/her retirement time. From policy perspective we need to lower the elderly health costs to reduce the death hazard rates leading to …

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Long-term care: regional disparities in Belgium

Karakaya, Güngör - 2009

In this paper we analyze the problem of population ageing in terms of non-medical care needs of persons who are dependent or have lost their autonomy, in order to provide the various public and private administrations active in these fields with some food for thought. The anticipated increase in...

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On ageing, health and poverty in rural India

Pandey, Manoj K. - 2009

In this paper, the trend and determinants of health and poverty among the elderly in rural India is analysed. Two rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS) data for the year 1995-96 and 2004 are employed. The analysis has been done with independent and pooled datasets. Our analysis shows that...

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Sandwiched women: Health behavior, health, and life satisfaction

Kartseva, Marina; Peresetsky, Anatoly - 2022

In this paper, we use unique nationally representative data from the 25th wave of Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey, (RLMS-HSE) for 2016. Based on the survey data, we investigate the impact of sandwich generation caregiving on the health behavior of Russian women—their health behavior,...

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Mean survival times and retirement ages

Linden, Mikael; Väänänen, Niko - 2023

age and the timing of retirement. The difference between survival and related longevity costs is maximized with an … applied to the observed retirement and death ages for the Finnish year 1947 birth cohort. We show that actual survival times … retirement ages. …

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La Spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nella Regione Basilicata Ricostruzione e benchmarking con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse

SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - 2014

Ecofin-Oecd methodology is applied to investigate the past trends of the public health care expenditure in Basilicata. The expenditure is standardized to take into account the composition of the population in terms of age. Did Basilicata spend too much compared to the Italian average? The answer...

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Health care and social care: complements, substitutes and attributes

Wildman, John; McMeekin, Peter - 2014

Ageing populations are a major challenge for most developed countries, where social security systems were developed in the post war period. It has been suggested that the costs of caring for the ageing population places a considerable strain on individuals, as well as on the public purse, and...

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Disability Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market – A Field Experiment on Blind Tenants

Fumarco, Luca - 2015

In this study, I show that with the appropriate experimental strategy, a correspondence test can be adapted to investigate disability discrimination in the rental housing market. I focus on discrimination against blind tenants assisted by guide dogs in Italy and obtain very robust results. The...

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Getting to the Roots of Long-Term Care Needs: A Regression Tree Analysis

Bassetti, Thomas; Rebba, Vincenzo - 2015

of Europeans aged 50 and older using data drawn from the Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The aim …

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Getting to the Roots of Long-Term Care Needs: A Regression Tree Analysis

Bassetti, Thomas; Rebba, Vincenzo - 2015

of Europeans aged 50 and older using data drawn from the Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The aim …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015249293