Sökning: "social gap in life expectancy"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden social gap in life expectancy.
1. Troubled transitions : Social variation and long-term trends in health and mortality in Estonia
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about social variation and long-term trends in health and mortality in Estonia. After five decades of Soviet occupation Estonia’s independence was re-established in 1991 on the basis of the historical continuity of its statehood. LÄS MER
2. Work, wealth, and well-being : Essays in macroeconomics
Sammanfattning : Structural transformation of the labor market and the aggregate economyWomen's increased involvement in the economy has been the most significant change in labor markets during the past century. In this paper, I account for this period of structural change of the labor market in a macroeconomic model, and study how the increase in female labor force participation has affected the economy's response to aggregate shocks. LÄS MER
3. Benefit Design, Retirement Decisions and Welfare Within and Across Generations in Defined Contribution Pension Schemes
Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Juha Alho and Edward Palmer): All around the world, public pension schemes are moving in the direction of non-financial (NDC) and financial defined contribution (DC) schemes. Both rely on accurate projections of life expectancy in the creation of annuities. LÄS MER
4. Health for community dwelling older people : trends, inequalities, needs and care in rural Vietnam
Sammanfattning : Background InVietnam, the proportion of people aged 60 and above has increased rapidly in recent decades. The majority live in rural areas where socioeconomic status is more disadvantaged than in urban areas.Vietnam’s economic status is improving but disparities in income and living conditions are widening between groups and regions. LÄS MER
5. Essays in Macroeconomics and Household Finance
Sammanfattning : Experience-based Learning, Stock Market Participation and Portfolio ChoiceRecent evidence suggests that lifetime experiences play an important role in determining households' investment choices. I incorporate these findings and the fact that household portfolios are underdiversified into an otherwise standard life-cycle model and examine to what extent they can help resolve long-standing puzzles in the literature regarding stock market participation and the fraction of financial wealth invested in risky assets. LÄS MER