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The ageing of society, health services provision and taxes

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Summary, in English

This paper investigates the outcome of ageing on taxes and hospitalisation of the elderly using panel data on 23 Swedish county councils 1980-1999. We test two hypotheses; whether a larger share of elderly has no negative effect on bed days per elderly person and no positive effect on tax rates. We reject the first hypothesis but fail to reject the second hypothesis. Further we cannot reject the hypothesis of a unitary elasticity of the share of elderly on bed days per elderly person. These results imply that the old bear the entire cost of adjustment when the population grows older.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

519-537

Publication/Series

Journal of Population Economics

Volume

18

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Environmental Health and Occupational Health

Keywords

  • voting
  • ageing
  • health care
  • panel data

Status

Published

Research group

  • Social Epidemiology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0933-1433