Informal Caregiving and the Retirement Decision

German Economic Review

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-330

  Meng, Annika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Discrete time hazard model; Retirement decision

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELDERLY CARE; PROBABILITY; RETIREMENT;

EID: 84863484254     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2011.00559.x     Document Type: Article

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