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Working Hours Mismatch, Job Strain and Mental Health Among Mature Age Workers in Australia
Publication date: Available online 2 November 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Riyana Miranti, Jinjing LiAbstractPrevious literature has discussed the relationships between non-participation and underemployment in the labour market with health and wellbeing, including the impact of these circumstances on mental health. While it is sometimes argued that a mismatch between the actual number of hours worked and people’s preferences about the amount of work they want has an association with mental health, findings are mixed. Moreover, job characteristics and age-specific factors are often not incl...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - November 3, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Age of Managers and Employees -Firm Survival
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Mikaela Backman, Charlie KarlssonAbstractMany developed countries will face a disproportionately large share of older individuals in the future. This will generally lead to a labour force characterized by older employees and older operational managers. This paper contributes to the existing literature on the effect of aging on firm performance by performing an explorative analysis of how the age of the operational manager and the age composition of employees relate to the survival of Swedish firms during 2004–2013. ...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 27, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Profile of hospitalised elderly patients in Belgium—Analysis of factors affecting hospital costs
ConclusionAdvanced age is by itself only a weak predictor of hospital cost, but it is a good predictor of a longer hospital stay. (Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing)
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Divorce and well-being. Disentangling the role of stress and socio economic status
Publication date: Available online 10 October 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Danilo Cavapozzi, Simona Fiore, Giacomo PasiniAbstractWe investigate the happiness variations associated with divorce by drawing data from a retrospective panel dataset based on the third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and covering 14 European countries. This dataset proposes as a powerful tool to control for reporting style heterogeneity in happiness self-evaluations. Indeed, in addition to individual fixed-effects, we control for full migration trajectories in order to remove b...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 24, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Two decades of the complementary leisure effect in Spain
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Carlos Pérez, Ángel Martín-Román, Alfonso MoralAbstractThis work attempts to gauge the impact of the so-called complementary leisure effect (or shared leisure effect) on the increase in the labour force participation rates of older males who live with a partner observed in Spain since the mid-1990s. The principal novelty of the work is that the whole the period throughout which said phenomenon has been occurring (1995–2016) is taken into consideration. Another important point of attention related to this effect ...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 22, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Indirect costs of adult pneumococcal disease and productivity-based rate of return to PCV13 vaccination for older adults and elderly diabetics in Denmark
Publication date: 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Volume 14Author(s): J.P. Sevilla, Andrew Stawasz, Daria Burnes, Peter Bo Poulsen, Reiko Sato, David E. Bloom (Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing)
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 16, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

The Economic Consequences of Hospitalizations for Older Workers across Countries
Publication date: Available online 12 October 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Corina Mommaerts, Syed Hassan Raza, Yu ZhengAbstractThis paper estimates the effect of hospital admissions among older workers on economic outcomes across countries. We use harmonized longitudinal survey data from the United States, China, and 13 countries in Europe, and follow the event study design of Dobkin et al., 2018 to estimate dynamic effects of a hospitalization on out-of-pocket health expenditures, labor market outcomes, social insurance payments, and household income. We find distinctly different patterns a...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 13, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Profile of hospitalised elderly patients in Belgium — Analysis of factors affecting hospital costs
Publication date: Available online 10 October 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Julie De Foor, Christelle Senterre, Pol Leclercq, Dimitri Martins, Magali Pirson (Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing)
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 11, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Financial Literacy of Middle-Aged and Older Individuals: Comparison of Japan and the United States
We present some interesting findings. First, financial literacy is generally influenced by educational attainment, cognitive skills, coursework in economics or finance, and income level. Second, financial literacy is associated with household asset allocation; individuals with higher literacy also have investment in stocks or securities. These patterns are commonly observed both in Japan and the United States. (Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing)
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 11, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Divorce and well-being. Disentangling the role of stress and socio economic status.
Publication date: Available online 10 October 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Danilo Cavapozzi, Simona Fiore, Giacomo PasiniAbstractWe investigate the happiness variations associated with divorce by drawing data from a retrospective panel dataset based on the third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and covering 14 European countries. This dataset proposes as a powerful tool to control for reporting style heterogeneity in happiness self-evaluations. Indeeda, in addition to individual fixed-effects, we control for full migration trajectories in order to remove ...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 11, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Protecting the elderly and children in times of crisis: An analysis based on National Transfer Accounts
Publication date: Available online 10 October 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Meritxell Solé, Guadalupe Souto, Elisenda Renteria, Giorgos Papadomichelakis, Concepció PatxotAbstractThe welfare state has been shown to be a powerful, effective mechanism in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. Yet, it retains a surprising bias towards the elderly, as identified in more than one strand of the social sciences literature. We construct the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for Spain before and after the Great Recession to determine how this bias might have shifted during the crisis. Our res...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 11, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Wills, Public Policy, and Financial Well-Being Among Surviving Spouses
Publication date: Available online 1 October 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Micah Y. BaumAbstractThe loss of a spouse is widely recognized as a large financial shock to many households. In this paper, we use harmonized, cross-national survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing to study will use, inheritance policies, and retained wealth among surviving spouses. We document significant cross-national variation in will use and default spousal inheritance regimes in t...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - October 2, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Do partners of severely disabled elderly protect against nursing home entry? Evidence from a French cohort
ConclusionsThe low protective effect of partners against the risk of nursing home entry for the oldest-old or severely disabled should lead to a reassessment of the relevance of informal support for this specific group of individuals. (Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing)
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - September 29, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Economic development and long-term care provision by families, markets and the state
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): Akira YakitaAbstractIn earlier stages of economic development, women mainly serve as family elderly care providers. With economic development, progress by women in the work force has lowered care levels. If levels should fall below the minimum care level for elderly parents, then children might enter into insurance contracts and even demand provision of long-term elderly care by the state. Such a change in elderly care provision is consistent with predictions that have been presented in the literature. As a further ...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - September 29, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

The Powerful Combination of Cross-country Comparisons and Life-History Data
Publication date: Available online 3 September 2019Source: The Journal of the Economics of AgeingAuthor(s): James Banks, Agar Brugiavini, Giacomo PasiniAbstractIn this paper we discuss the value of international comparative empirical studies within the broad field of the economics of ageing. We argue the value is particularly great when such comparative research is based on long life-history data on participants, collected using large-scale autobiographical life-history methods. We identify particular aspects of such comparisons that create value relative to other empirical methods and also briefly survey recent key papers...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - September 4, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research