Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy doc

... Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy * In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The ... 1 Note: Occurrence of conditions and ADLs in percent; maximum grip strength in kg. 17 IZA DP No. 1887 Labour Force Participation of the Elderly...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... investigate the determinants of labor force participation of the elderly, paying special attention to the influence of health status on labor force participation and the possible impact of the ... that the expansion of the coverage by NHI to the elderly was a large factor in reducing the size of the labor force, whereas the program may have ha...

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... once in the year  2 in 3 seniors visited a doctor at least once in the year  1 in 3 reported that they did not make a single visit to a doctor (?)  The elderly make greatest demands on the ... Methodology:  Data from the baseline survey of participants in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS)  Thesis:  The present trend of functional disabil...

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... publications, in part or in full. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World ... POLLUTION INFLUENCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LUNG? The level of lung function is one of the strongest predictors of mortality in adults. Factors that affe...

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... providing the main details of the database and default estimates of externalities, but lacking the facility for manipulation of functions, etc. that is present in the full version of the database. ... Weightings were calculated from straight-line measurement of the length of each country's coastline bordering the sea area in question. The weighted averag...

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... for the old often takes the form of living together. Another included indicator of social relationships is widowhood. Both of these are dichotomous measures, where 1 equals the name of the variables ... distance, managing money, and using the phone) measuring both the difficulties of activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)....

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... as the active participation of the el- derly in the community so as to maintain or improve quality of life (39). The present findings stress the need for better organization of and quality in ... up. The total scores for each of the eight scales were then converted to points from 0 to 100, with 0 denoting the worst state of health and 100 denoting the best (1...

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... unattended in the event of an accident. The increasing use of telemonitoring to support inde- pendent living inside and outside of the home inevitably raises many ethical questions regarding privacy, ... Ilsar. An in- strumentation system for the remote monitoring of changes in functional health status of the elderly at home. In: Proceedings of the 16th Annual...

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... effect of changes on the capital levels on performance hinges on the recent theory of the banking firm, which is based on the ‘specialness’ of banks in a setting in which there are asymmetries of information. ... reflection of the main underlying strategies of firms. We ran the empirical analysis by using an extensive sample of individual bank M&As which, in...

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