Long-term care insurance: The French example - 09/02/11
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With the ageing of population and high cost of long-term care, long-term care insurance has strongly expanded in France in recent decades. This article provides an overview of a recent empirical work [1] studying the determinants of the demand for insurance covering long-term care on the French market using cross-sectional data from the newly developed Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) database. It shows that long-term care insurance is purchased to preserve bequests and to protect families in the event of disability. Risk behaviours as well as experience of disability, are also shown to play a significant role in explaining the demand for long-term care insurance in France.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Long-term care, Insurance, Bequest, Informal care
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Vol 2 - N° 1
P. 22-25 - février 2011 Retour au numéro
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