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The “Costs” of Informal Care: An Analysis of the Impact of Elderly Care on Caregivers' Subjective Well-being in Japan

Niimi, Yoko - 2015

This paper examines the impact of providing informal care to elderly parents on caregivers' subjective well-being using unique data from the "Preference Parameters Study" of Osaka University, a nationally representative survey conducted in Japan. The estimation results indicate heterogeneous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015249742

The “Costs” of Informal Care: An Analysis of the Impact of Elderly Care on Caregivers' Subjective Well-being in Japan

Niimi, Yoko - 2015

This paper examines the impact of providing informal care to elderly parents on caregivers’ subjective well-being using unique data from the “Preference Parameters Study” of Osaka University, a nationally representative survey conducted in Japan. The estimation results indicate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015251313

An Impact Evaluation of Digital Cash Transfers Scheme on Income Poverty in Nigeria

Nwaobi, Godwin - 2023

Just as the African economy is confronting its sharpest reversal in a generation; Nigeria is currently faced with perhaps the most challenging economic downturn (amidst fuel subsidy removal) in its history. Thus, social protection programmes in the form of social cash transfers to vulnerable...

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Fertility and pension systems

Rizzo, Giuseppe - 2009

In the last century, state pension systems have been introduced in most countries, and since then their size has been significantly increasing. A broad literature has studied this phenomenon, developing models that explain why pension systems exist and have been continuously expanding. At the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015215393

Fertility and pension systems

Rizzo, Giuseppe - 2009

A broad political economy literature explained the introduction and expansion of pension systems, but the effects caused by the endogenous reduction of fertility have been largely disregarded, as the fertility choice is usually considered exogenous. This paper suggests a model that takes into...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015215496

Pensions at a glance: public policies across OECD countries

Whitehouse, Edward; Queisser, Monika - 2007

This second edition of Pensions at a Glance updates all the important indicators of retirement-income systems developed … private pensions, which use the OECD pension models to explore more deeply the central issues of pension policy in national … between pension benefit and pre-retirement earnings, from mandatory pensions is 58.7%. But taxes play an important role in old …

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The Single-Mindedness theory: micro-foundation and applications to social security systems

Canegrati, Emanuele - 2006

The central purpose of this paper is to introduce a new political economy explanation to modern Social Security Systems. This approach is based on the Single-Mindedness Theory (SMT), which assumes that the more single-minded groups are able to exert a greater power of influence on Governments...

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Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - 2010

We show that the introduction of unfunded public pensions in a Cobb-Douglas economy with overlapping generations and …

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Economic growth and stability with public PAYG pensions and private intra-family old-age insurance

Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - 2010

-age insurance – i.e., voluntary intra-family transfers from young to old members versus pay-as-you-go public pensions –, in a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220397

Fertility and pension systems

Rizzo, Giuseppe - 2010

A broad political economics literature explains the introduction and expansion of pension systems, but the effects caused by the endogenous reduction of fertility are typically disregarded, as the fertility choice is usually considered exogenous. This paper suggests a political model that takes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220515