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Social Insurance for Long-term Care. [PDF]
J Popul Ageing, 2022 The issue of how best to finance long-term care (LTC) is the subject of recent reforms, forthcoming reforms or continuing debate in various countries and remains as relevant and challenging as ever.
Karagiannidou M, Wittenberg R.
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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1917 n ...
John B. Andrews
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The impact of social insurance on health among middle-aged and older adults in rural China: a longitudinal study using a three-wave nationwide survey. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Many studies have examined the impact of social insurance on health, but the results have generally been mixed, presumably because they have not fully addressed potential biases related to the study’s cross-sectional design. In this study, we conducted a
Ma X, Oshio T.
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Social Insurance and the Marriage Market [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 2020 Social insurance is often linked to marriage. Existing evidence suggests small marital responses to financial incentives and stems from settings where benefits are realized in the near future. I analyze how linking survivors insurance to marriage affects
Petra Persson
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Social Insurance Networks [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance claims spread among neighbors and former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions generated by ...
S. Markussen, Knut Røed
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The politics of redistributive social insurance [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2002 This paper analyses the political support for social insurance that includes elements of redistribution when there exists an imperfect private insurance alternative. Individuals differ both in their income and risk. The social insurance is compulsory and charges an income-related contribution with pooling of risks.
Jean Hindriks, Philippe De Donder
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Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and productivity are negatively correlated.
H. Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
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Redistribution and Social Insurance [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2016 We study optimal redistribution and insurance in a life-cycle economy with private idiosyncratic shocks. We characterize Pareto optima, show the forces determining optimal labor distortions, and derive closed form expressions for their limiting behavior.
M. Golosov +2 more
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Is there a case for social insurance? [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2004 Social insurance is an increasingly popular policy reform in developing countries. Thailand and Vietnam have longstanding efforts to achieve universal coverage through social insurance. Kenya is currently implementing such a reform. Caribbean countries have been debating the merits of ‘National Health Insurance’ since the mid-1990s; and many other ...
William D. Savedoff
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