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Female labour supply and nursing home prices

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  • Thomas Bauer
  • Magdalena Stroka

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Long term care in Germany is provided in nursing homes, by professional ambulatory services and by the patient’s relatives at home, with the latter being predominantly provided by women. Given an increasing labour market participation of women, long term care at home by female relatives might become less frequent in the future which in turn may result in rising demand for and hence rising prices for long term care services. This paper builds upon the existing literature on the determinants of nursing home prices and investigates whether the labour market participation and the education level of women are correlated with the prices of nursing homes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study using panel data approaches in this field of research. Based on a full sample of nursing homes in Germany for the years 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007, our empirical results suggest that a high share of full-time employed women aged 50–65 at the district level is not associated with higher prices of nursing homes. Furthermore, we find only weak evidence for a positive correlation of prices with the local average of women’s educational level and a negative correlation with part-time employment indicating that price levels are lower in regions with higher shares of part-time employed women. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

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  • Thomas Bauer & Magdalena Stroka, 2013. "Female labour supply and nursing home prices," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 16(3), pages 258-270, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:hcarem:v:16:y:2013:i:3:p:258-270
    DOI: 10.1007/s10729-013-9226-2
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    Keywords

    Informal care; Eldercare; Employed caregivers; Long term care for the elderly; Fixed effects; I11;
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    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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