Extra Care Housing in the UK: Can it be a Home for Life?

Extra care housing is believed to constitute a home for life, precluding the need for institutional accommodations, but currently there is little substantiating evidence. Longitudinal data show that 8.2% of extra care housing residents will move to institutional accommodations after 5 years. Matching analyses suggest that extra care housing residents aged 80 years and older are approximately half as likely to enter institutional care compared with older people in the community in receipt of domiciliary care, albeit with some caveats. Extra care housing may embody a home for life for the majority of residents, although a substantial minority is likely to require institutional care.     

‘She is Too Young for These Chores’ — Is Housework Taking a Back Seat in Urban Chinese Childhood?

The child in contemporary urban China is experiencing an increasingly exclusive focus on academic achievement at the expense of non‐academic activities, particularly housework. In‐depth interviews with caregivers (including grandparents and parents) from 9 three‐generational families (n = 34) and parents from 10 nuclear families (n = 20) were conducted. Results show that although children from both family types were low in housework participation, children in three‐generational families were perceived by their caregivers to be less competent in performing self‐care and family‐care tasks. They were also less frequently assigned regular tasks as compared with children from nuclear families. Unlike caregivers from western societies, where children's participation in housework is seen as either a means of socialisation or a source of domestic labour, Chinese caregivers consider housework as a distraction, at best an addendum to academic work.     

Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Aging Populations?

Population and Environment - This report looks at the recent publication prepared by the UN Population Division which examines the demographic situation in most advanced nations, but especially in...     

Investment-Promoting Policies in the Presence of International Interactions

Investment-promoting policies in a small open economy are analyzed by means of a dynamic applied general equilibrium model with overlapping generations. Simulations of a decrease of the corporate income tax rate and an increase of the investment tax credit rate are discussed and compared. This paper examines in particular the extent to which international trade and capital flows interfere in both tax policies. The modeling of overlapping generations allows moreover to identify the winners and losers of these reforms. It is shown that the subsidy policy is preferred to the profit tax policy when a small open economy seeks to stimulate capital formation.