New Findings from Waseda University in the Area of Healthcare Economics Reported (Spillover effect of Japanese long-term care insurance as an…

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New Findings from Waseda University in the Area of Healthcare Economics Reported (Spillover effect of Japanese long-term care insurance as an employment promotion policy for family caregivers)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at China Weekly News -- Data detailed on Health and Medicine - Healthcare Economics have been presented. According to news reporting out of Tokyo, Japan, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "We evaluate a spillover effect of the Japanese public long-term care insurance (LTCI) as a policy to stimulate family caregivers' labor force participation. Using nationally representative data from 1995 to 2013, we apply difference-in-difference propensity score matching to investigate the spillover effect in two periods: before and after the introduction of the LTCI in 2000 and before and after its major amendment in 2006."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Waseda University, "Our results show that the LTCI introduction has significant and positive spillover effects on family caregivers' labor force participation and the effects vary by gender and age. In contrast, the LTCI amendment is found to have generally negative spillover effects on their labor force participation."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "We draw attention to these spillover effects, as expanding labor market supply to sustain the economy would be a priority for Japan and other rapidly aging countries in the coming decades."

For more information on this research see: Spillover effect of Japanese long-term care insurance as an employment promotion policy for family caregivers. Journal of Health Economics, 2017;56():103-112. Journal of Health Economics can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Bv, PO Box 211, 1000 Ae Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Health Economics - www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-health-economics/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting R. Fu, Waseda University, Fac Polit Sci & Econ, Tokyo, Japan. Additional authors for this research include H. Noguchi, A. Kawamura, H. Takahashi and N. Tamiya.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.011. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Tokyo, Japan, Asia, Healthcare Economics, Health and Medicine, Asia, Waseda University.