Homeownership and Demand for Long-Term Care
Elderly home-owners get institutionalized less often than renters do. We hypothesize that housing tenure itself explains this behavior. Using longitudinal data from a Dutch community sample (N= 2,372) collected between 1992 and 2005, we find a negative effect of housing tenure on the probability of moving to a nursing home between two subsequent waves. This effect remains significant after controlling for health, socio-economic status and the presence of a partner and or children. We could not reduce this finding to a variety of explanations directly related to housing tenure. There was no sub... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam: Tinbergen Institute
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / I11 / J14 / R21 / home equity / health care / ageing / housing tenure / institutionalization / Wohneigentum / Heim / Wohnstandort / Niederlande |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27638983 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86823 |