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Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 1994 Micro data studies of household saving often find a significant group in the population with virtually no wealth, raising concerns about heterogeneity in motives for saving. In particular, this heterogeneity has been interpreted as evidence against the life cycle model of saving. This paper argues that a life cycle model can replicate observed patterns
R. Hubbard, Jon Skinner, S. Zeldes
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Informal Insurance in Social Networks [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 Ray is grateful for funding from the National Science Foundation under grant No. 0241070.
Garance Genicot +2 more
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Migration and Social Insurance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 SummaryMobility across countries is often suspected to affect the coexistence of different social insurance systems. A wide variety of social protection systems exist within the EU. Some are of Beveridgean inspiration (with universal and more or less flat benefits), while others are mainly Bismarckian (with benefits related to past contributions ...
Cremer, Helmuth, Goulão, Catarina
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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Nordic countries excel in cancer care, but studies on uptake, costs, or managed entry agreements of cancer medicines have not been conducted recently.
Kati Sarnola +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Objectives Frequent attenders (FAs) impose a significant burden on service capacity and public health funding. Although the characteristics of the group and their risk for sickness absences (SA) have been studied, an understanding of FAs in different ...
Riku Perhoniemi, Jenni Blomgren
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Uncertainties of ISO 3382-3 sound pressure level quantities
Acta Acustica, 2021 The ISO 3382-3 standard uses the measurable sound pressure based parameters D2,S and Lp,A,S,4 m to describe the acoustic properties of open-plan offices.
Schneider Moritz +4 more
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Social Insurance and Transition [PDF]
International Economic Review, 1995 Summary: We study the general equilibrium effects of social insurance on transition in a model in which the process of moving workers from matches in the state sector to new matches in the private sector takes time and involves uncertainty. As might be expected, adding social insurance to an economy without any improves welfare.
Andrew Atkeson, Patrick J. Kehoe
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Proceedings, 2023 In an epidemiological case-control study, exposure-response relationship between hand-arm vibration exposure and the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of the upper extremities were examined among 209 male cases and 614 controls in the German ...
Yi Sun +8 more
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Hand-Arm Vibration Exposure Assessment for a Case-Control Study among German Workers
Proceedings, 2023 In order to analyse the exposure-response relationship between hand–arm-vibration exposure and the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of upper extremities in an epidemiological case-control study, a database was established to provide technical ...
Christian Freitag +9 more
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Journal of Politics, 2020 Private alternatives to the public provision of welfare state services and benefits have expanded in almost all OECD countries over the past decades. In this paper, we study how this change affects patterns of public support for the welfare state and, in
Marius R. Busemeyer, T. Iversen
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