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Optimal Retirement Age: Death Hazard Rate Approach
Linden, Mikael - 2024
/her evident non-zero death risk. A retiree with large welfare inputs supporting mortality risk decreasing effects delays his … retirement age decision. Optimal retirement age results are derived with a death hazard rate function having non …/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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Mean survival times and retirement ages
Linden, Mikael; Väänänen, Niko - 2023
applied to the observed retirement and death ages for the Finnish year 1947 birth cohort. We show that actual survival times …
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Retirement duration maximization with survival time expectations
Linden, Mikael - 2022
Paper proposes a model of retirement duration maximization based on retiree’s ex-ante intended retirement age and subjective survival time estimate. The optimum result needs that retirement age is an increasing convex function of survival time estimate supporting postponed retirement age with...
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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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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
This paper investigates the effects of individual and environmental determinants on physical and cognitive impairment of Europeans aged 50 and older using data drawn from the Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The aim is to understand the different paths that need-related...
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