1 Correction to: Empirical Economics https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02246-0

In the original publication of the article, “logfempart: logltc_social” is removed from Fig. 1 and “logltc_total: loggdp” is removed from Fig. 2.

Under the “Unit root tests” section, “unit root” is corrected as “unit roots”.

Under “Conclusion” section, the sentence “In the short term, such as government expoansion of LTC spending may be partially absorbed by higher tax revenues” is corrected as “In the short term, such a government expansion of LTC spending may be partially absorbed by higher tax revenues”.

The original article has been corrected.