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Care regimes and national employment models

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Annamaria Simonazzi
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Rapid population ageing has dramatically increased the social and economic cost of elderly care. Demand for care labour is increasing rapidly, and all countries are experiencing problems in recruiting enough workers to meet demand. In some countries, the shortage of care workers has been met by a large inflow of immigrant, mostly female, workers. The paper’s aim is twofold. To argue that the way in which care is provided and financed may entail large differences in the creation of a formal care market. Provision in kind and ‘tied’ monetary transfers - that is, cash benefits that are somehow regulated – may prevent the formation of a large informal care market. National employment models in turn shape the features of the care labour market: in fact, they affect the quantity and the quality of the care labour supply, the size of the care labour shortage, and the degree of dependence on migrant carers. We show how these two factors combine to shape the characteristics of care regimes and their long term sustainability.

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Paper provided by Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Public Economics in its series Working Papers with number 113.

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F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
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J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
O15 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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  3. Melanie Arntz & Jochen Michaelis & Alexander Spermann, 2006. "Reforming Long-term Care in Germany," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Special Issues, Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 142(S (specia), pages 37-42. [Downloadable!]
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