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On the Optimal Provision of Social Insurance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 In this paper we compute the optimal tax and education policy transition in an economy where progressive taxes provide social insurance against idiosyncratic wage risk, but distort the education decision of households. Optimally chosen tertiary education subsidies mitigate these distortions.
Alexander Ludwig +3 more
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Insights From Insurance for Fair Machine Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We argue that insurance can act as an analogon for the social situatedness of machine learning systems, hence allowing machine learning scholars to take insights from the rich and interdisciplinary insurance literature. Tracing the interaction of uncertainty, fairness and responsibility in insurance provides a fresh perspective on fairness in machine ...
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IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012 Abstract The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for – in both unemployment and disability insurance – to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a long-lasting decline in labor force participation. A review of recent empirical evidence,
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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
Hubbard, R Glenn +2 more
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Social insurance, mutualistic insurance and genetic information [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021 While a number of jurisdictions internationally prohibit insuring companies to be able to use genetic information in their risk classification, a voluntary code of practice permits insurers the limited use of predictive genetic test results in the UK. Jonathan Pugh1 offers a pluralist justice-based argument in support of the UK practice.
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Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017 Objective: In an automated dose dispensing (ADD) service, medicines are dispensed in unit-dose bags according to administration times. When the service is initiated, the patient’s medication list is reconciled and a prescription review is conducted.
Juha Sinnemäki +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 The use of face masks became mandatory during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Wearing masks may lead to complaints about laboured breathing and stress. The influence of different masks on cardiopulmonary performance was investigated in a partially double-blinded ...
Eike-Maximillian Marek +14 more
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Insurance Contract for High Renewable Energy Integration [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The increasing penetration of renewable energy poses significant challenges to power grid reliability. There have been increasing interests in utilizing financial tools, such as insurance, to help end-users hedge the potential risk of lost load due to renewable energy variability.
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Optimal Risk Allocation in Reinsurance Networks [PDF]
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 82, 37-47, 2018, 2017 In this paper we consider reinsurance or risk sharing from a macroeconomic point of view. Our aim is to find socially optimal reinsurance treaties. In our setting we assume that there are $n$ insurance companies each bearing a certain risk and one representative reinsurer.
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Rethinking Social Insurance [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2005 economics. 1 Social insurance programs have become the most important, the most expensive, and often the most controversial aspect of government domestic policy, not only in the United States but also in many other countries, including developing and industrialized nations.
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