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El coste de los cuidados de larga duración en la población española: Análisis comparativo entre los años 1999 y 2008
Alcañiz Zanón, Manuela; Alemany Leira, Ramón; … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 12 (2011), pp. 111-131
This paper analyzes the cost of long-term care (LTC) associated to individuals in dependence situation. The economic cost of care per unit of service is linked to the expected time of needed care and the intensity of required services. We have estimated the expected lifetime cost of LTC in...
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El coste de los cuidados de larga duración en la población española: análisis comparativo entre los años 1999 y 2008 || The Cost of Long-Term Care in the Spanish Population Comparative Analysis between 1999 and 2008
Alcañiz Zanón, Manuela; Alemany Leira, Ramón; … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 12 (2011) 1, pp. 111-131
Este trabajo analiza los costes de los cuidados de larga duración (CLD) ligados a los individuos en situación de dependencia. El coste económico unitario de los servicios de cuidados de larga duración está relacionado con el tiempo esperado de necesidad de la atención y la intensidad de...
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Coherent mortality forecasting: the product-ratio method with functional time series models
Hyndman, Rob J; Booth, Heather; Yasmeen, Farah - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011
When independence is assumed, forecasts of mortality for subpopulations are almost always divergent in the long term. We propose a method for non-divergent or coherent forecasting of mortality rates for two or more subpopulations, based on functional principal components models of simple and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838043
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So close yet so unequal: Reconsidering spatial inequality in U.S. cities
Andreoli, Francesco; Peluso, Eugenio - 2017
Spatial income inequality in cities is assessed by looking at the distribution of income across individuals and their … neighbors. Two new Gini-type spatial inequality indices are introduced: the first index measures the average degree of income … inequality within individual neighborhoods; the second index measures the inequality of average incomes among individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739629
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Quality, Quantity and Duration of Lives
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Housseini, Bouba - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2015
The evaluation of development processes and of public policies often involves comparisons of social states that differ in income distributions, population sizes and life longevity. This may require social evaluation principles to be sensitive to the quality, the quantity and the duration of...
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To love or to pay: Savings and health care in older age.
Dobrescu, Loretti I. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2012
This paper develops a dynamic structural life-cycle model to study how heterogeneous health and medical spending shocks a¤ect the savings behavior of the elderly. Individuals are allowed to respond to health shocks in two ways: they can directly pay for their health care expenses (self-insure)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010663564
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So close yet so unequal : reconsidering spatial inequality in U.S. cities
Andreoli, Francesco; Peluso, Eugenio - 2017 - Preliminary version: February 2, 2017
Spatial income inequality in cities is assessed by looking at the distribution of income across individuals and their … neighbors. Two new Gini-type spatial inequality indices are introduced: the first index measures the average degree of income … inequality within individual neighborhoods; the second index measures the inequality of average incomes among individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776460
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Inequalities in regional excess mortality and life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Krekó, Judit; Tóth, Csaba G. - 2023
. While the life expectancy inequality has returned to its pre-pandemic level in 2022, the observed life expectancy in almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468492
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Redistribution with Unequal Life Expectancy
Koehne, Sebastian - 2023
This paper introduces life expectancy inequality into a tractable Mirrleesian life-cycle model and characterizes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469742
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An open database on inequality and polarization in length of life (1950-2021)
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tejería, Mercedes - 2023
disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity … Population Prospects to develop the most comprehensive database of lifespan inequality and polarization for 258 countries and … userfriendly website that enables users to compute lifespan inequality for any group of countries of their choice. These extensive …
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