Long‐Term Care and Pay‐For‐Performance Programs
In: Review of Development Economics, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 1005-1021
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In: Review of Development Economics, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 1005-1021
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In: The Rand journal of economics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 171
ISSN: 1756-2171
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10776
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w27948
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The profound economic and political changes of the 1990s had detrimental social effects in many domains of life in post-socialist countries, including diminishing life expectancy and growing unhappiness. Despite economic improvements in the second decade of transition, research has documented that happiness lagged behind. We test whether past unemployment experience can explain this "transition happiness gap in the context of Ukraine", a country with a painful delayed transition from planned to market economy. We analyze unique longitudinal data for the period 2003–2012. Current unemployment substantially reduces subjective wellbeing, and the effect is roughly 50% larger for men than for women. The effect of past unemployment is significant, but small in magnitude compared to the effect of current unemployment. However, it does correspond to around 8% of the ''transition happiness gap" found by Guriev and Melnikov (2017), suggesting that past unemployment experience can be considered as a partial explanation.
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w22471
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w23649
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w22430
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w22515
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In: The journal of human resources, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 47-114
ISSN: 1548-8004
In: NBER Working Paper No. w15027
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In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 367-378
ISSN: 1475-3073
The ageing of the population and increasing longevity result in predictions of sizeable increases in long-term care expenditures. Other analyses have shown significant decreases in disability prevalence among older people in the US. This study provides an empirical quantification of the net result of these two forces (increased expenditures due to ageing versus potential expenditure reductions due to reduced disability) using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. The analyses show that the implications of ageing and increasing longevity for long-term care expenditures are modest relative to the effects of future increases or decreases in functional abilities of older people.