This paper analyzes the relationship between long-term care provision and the average individual wage rate. In addition, the eff ects of the number of hours spent on caregiving on the probability of employment as well as on the number of hours worked are examined. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) of 2004 and 2006 is used to analyze caregiving eff ects on the Europea...

In standard life-cycle models, borrowing enables young adults to smooth consumption, but for those who are indebted and face high borrowing costs, parental co-residence could serve as an alternative smoothing mechanism. This paper investigates if young adults use parental co-residence to smooth consumption by examining the relationship between debt characteristics which are typically associated...

A Gravity Model of Migration between ENC and EU Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main countries of origin and transit of legal and illegal migration towards Europe. Their economic, cultural and historical links also make them an important pote...

I. I N T R O D U C T I O N Modern power grid:; are becoming more and more stressed with the load demands increasing rapidly. The voltage collapses which occurred recently have again drawn much attention to the issue of stability security margins in power systems [I]. The small signal stability margins are highly dependent upon such system factors as load flow feasibility boundaries, minimum and...

После выявления на Кавказе в начале 70-х годов ХХ века тектонических покровов стало понятно, что последовательность нижне(?) и среднепалеозойских пород древнего ядра Большого Кавказа является тектоно-стратиграфической образует аккреционную колонну. Считалось, современном виде она была сформирована главную фазу герцинского орогенеза представлена несколькими системами покровов. В работах кавказск...

In this paper we study the disability transition probabilities (as well as the mortality probabilities) due to concurrent factors to age such as income, gender and education. Although it is well known that ageing and socioeconomic status influence the probability of causing functional disorders, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the combined effect of those factors along the indivi...