Costa-Font Joan, Karlsson Martin, Øien Henning
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
CESIfo, Munich.
Health Econ. 2016 Nov;25 Suppl 2:25-42. doi: 10.1002/hec.3385.
Macroeconomic downturns can have an important impact on the receipt of informal and formal long-term care, because recessions increase the number of unemployed and affect net wealth. This paper investigates how the market for informal care changed during and after the Great Recession in Europe, with particular focus on the determinants of care receipt. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, which includes a rich set of variables covering waves before and after the Great Recession. We find evidence of an increase in the availability of informal care after the economic downturn when controlling for year and country fixed effects. This trend is mainly driven by changes in care provision of individuals not cohabiting with the care recipient. We also find evidence of several determinants of informal care receipt changing during the crisis - such as physical needs, personal wealth, and household structures. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
宏观经济衰退会对非正式和正式长期护理的获得产生重要影响，因为经济衰退会增加失业人数并影响净财富。本文研究了欧洲大衰退期间及之后非正式护理市场如何变化，特别关注护理获得的决定因素。我们使用了来自欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查的数据，其中包括一组丰富的变量，涵盖了大衰退前后的多个阶段。在控制年份和国家固定效应后，我们发现经济衰退后非正式护理的可获得性有所增加。这一趋势主要由与护理接受者不住在一起的个人提供护理的变化所驱动。我们还发现有证据表明，危机期间非正式护理获得的几个决定因素发生了变化，如身体需求、个人财富和家庭结构。版权所有© 2016约翰·威利父子有限公司。
