The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study [PDF]
This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account ...
Olena Nizalova
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Informal Care and Labor Supply [PDF]
Based on Norwegian register data we show that having a lone parent in the terminal phase of life significantly affects the offspring’s labor market activity.
Fevang, Elisabeth +2 more
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Pre-School Education and Attainment in the NCDS and BCS [PDF]
This paper considers the effect of how children pass time before entrance to school on attainment in primary school. We find in NCDS data that children perform marginally better at seven and eleven if they spent time with their mother, or at a pre-school,
Donald Robertson +2 more
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Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany [PDF]
This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance.
Arntz, Melanie, Thomsen, Stephan L.
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The Effects of Cooperation: A Structural Model of Siblings' Caregiving Interactions [PDF]
This paper analyzes the decision making process of adult children to provide informal care to their parents. First, we develop a structural model to explain the amount of time that only children (without siblings) spend on providing care, taking into ...
Knoef, Marike, Kooreman, Peter
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Pflege im Spannungsfeld von Angebot und Nachfrage [PDF]
, 2008 Currently nearly half of people eligible for long-term care benefits in Germany are receiving informal care by family members. Accounting for the ongoing ageing process of society, an increasing labour participation rate of women and a rising part of old
Hackmann, Tobias, Moog, Stefan
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End of Life Decision Making, Policy and the Criminal Justice System: Untrained Carers Assuming Responsibility (UCARes) and Their Uncertain Legal Liabilities [PDF]
, 2006 This article will explore some previously unrecognised legal and ethical issues associated with informal care-giving and criminal justice in the context of end of life decision-making.
Biggs, Hazel, Mackenzie, Robin
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Health Care in Rural Communities: Exploring the Development of Informal and Voluntary Care [PDF]
Nation-state restructuring has resulted in significant political, economic and social change in rural communities. One manifestation of this transformation has been the changing nature of local governance, characterised by the re-working of central-local
Mark W. Rosenberg, Mark W. Skinner
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How do middle-aged children allocate time and money transfers to their older parents in Europe? [PDF]
The modifications of the demographic structure in Europe are expected to change several aspects of the economic and social landscape. Among the several issues posed by ageing, financing of health care and more precisely long-term care appears as a major ...
Eric Bonsang
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Developing New Strategies to Support Future Caregivers of the Aged in Canada: Projections of Need and their Policy Implications [PDF]
Projections of future need for Canadian continuing care services typically uses current utilization patterns and population aging. Accurately assessing this need is much more complex since disability patterns among the elderly are changing and ...
Jacques Légaré +2 more
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