The ageing of society, health services provision and taxes
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper investigates the outcome of ageing on taxes and hospitalisation of the elderly using panel data on 23 Swedish county councils 1980-1999. We test two hypotheses; whether a larger share of elderly has no negative effect on bed days per elderly person and no positive effect on tax rates. We reject the first hypothesis but fail to reject the second hypothesis. Further we cannot reject the hypothesis of a unitary elasticity of the share of elderly on bed days per elderly person. These results imply that the old bear the entire cost of adjustment when the population grows older.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2005
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
519-537
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Population Economics
Volym
18
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Environmental Health and Occupational Health
Nyckelord
- voting
- ageing
- health care
- panel data
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Social Epidemiology
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0933-1433