Back to Search
Start Over
Careful in the Crisis? Determinants of Older People's Informal Care Receipt in Crisis-Struck European Countries
- Source :
- Health Economics. 25:25-42
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2016.
-
Abstract
- Macroeconomic downturns can have an important impact on the receipt of informal and formal long-term care, since 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 their various determinants. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging 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.
- Subjects :
- Receipt
Economic growth
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Affect (psychology)
Recession
Care provision
Great recession
03 medical and health sciences
Long-term care
0502 economics and business
Economics
National wealth
Demographic economics
sense organs
050207 economics
0305 other medical science
Older people
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10579230
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Health Economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d865312df486b23fb6a885c1f8008db6