Long-term Care Insurance Facilities and Interregional Migration of the Elderly in Japan

Using municipality-level data of Japan, this paper empirically examines how the capacity of long-term care insurance facilities impacts interregional migration of the elderly. We construct net-migration data of the elderly population in each municipality by combining statistics available from existi...

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Veröffentlicht in:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 39-2009)
Autoren: Kawase, Akihiro, Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi
Format: Arbeit
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2009
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Zusammenfassung:Using municipality-level data of Japan, this paper empirically examines how the capacity of long-term care insurance facilities impacts interregional migration of the elderly. We construct net-migration data of the elderly population in each municipality by combining statistics available from existing sources. We find that interregional differences in capacity of long-term care insurance facilities generate strong magnetic effects on migration of the elderly. Our results indicate that family care is difficult and that long-termcare insurance facilities are necessary for late-stage elderly in need of long-termcare.
Umfang:17 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0020