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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Published in:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 39-2009)
Main Authors: Kawase, Akihiro, Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi
Format: Work
Language:English
Published: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2009
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