We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy variation using an RD design to estimate the effect of increasing disability benefits on employment, earnings, ...
2024| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work force, and informal caregivers. Finally, we document expenditures on long-term care and estimate the value ...
In:
Jonathan Gruber, Kathleen McGarry (Eds.) ,
Long-Term Care around the World
Chicago : University of Chicago press
S. 141-176
| Johannes Geyer, Axel Börsch- Supan, Peter Haan, Elsa Perdrix
This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work force, and informal caregivers. Finally, we document expenditures on long-term care and estimate the value ...
Cambridge, Mass.:
National Bureau of Economic Research,
2023,
48 S.
(NBER Working Paper Series ; 31870)
| Johannes Geyer, Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Peter Haan, Elsa Perdrix