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Using International Micro Data to Learn About Individuals' Responses to Changes in Social Insurance

Hurd, Michael D.; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Rohwedder, Susann - 2009

In this paper the authors examine the scope of cross-country variation in institutions related to social insurance. Building on the variation they find they assess the value of new micro data that is comparable across countries to help identify key parameters of individual behavior. They present...

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Pension and Social Security Wealth in the Health and Retirement Study

Gustman, Alan L.; Mitchell, Olivia S.; Samwick, Andrew; … - 2011

Together, pensions, social security and health insurance account for half of the wealth held by all households in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth percentiles, and even for 48 percent of wealth for those in...

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Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on social security disability insurance? : evidence from the U.S. social security reforms

Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur R. - 2020

The United States Social Security Amendments of 1983 (SSA1983) increased the full retirement age (FRA) and increased penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making...

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Funding developing Asia's old-age needs : challenges and opportunities

Mason, Andrew; Park, Donghyun; Estrada, Gemma - 2024

The population of developing Asia, in particular East Asia, is aging. Funding the needs of its growing population of … older adults is the biggest socioeconomic challenge that aging presents for the region. The central objective of our paper … rise substantially because of population aging between 2025 and 2065. We find that labor income will play a smaller role in …

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Long-Term Services and Supports and Disease Management among Older Chinese Adults in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2022

Rapid population aging elevates burden of chronic and non-communicable diseases among older adults. Despite the …

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Happiness in Old Age: The Daughter Connection

Sukontamarn, Pataporn; Asadullah, Niaz; … - 2023

elderly population in the rapidly aging Asian societies. However, this has also raised concern over the reinforcement of … old age by investigating the role of adult children's gender in the context of Thailand, an aging Asian country with no …

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Does providing informal elderly care hasten retirement? Evidence from Japan

Niimi, Yoko - 2017

This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using microdata from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers' planned retirement age if we do not take into account caregiving intensity but...

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Does providing informal elderly care hasten retirement? : evidence from Japan

Niimi, Yoko - 2017

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Happiness in old age : the daughter connection

Pataporn Sukontamarn; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; … - 2023

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Informal care at old age at home and in nursing homes : determinants and economic value

Roquebert, Quitterie; Tenand, Marianne - In: The European journal of health economics 25 (2024) 3, pp. 497-511

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