Background Although most community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes are voluntary, problem of adverse selection is … subsidies largely explained this increase. Conclusions Adverse selection is an important concern for any voluntary health …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

This paper emphasizes the two-way causality between the provision of unemployment insurance and the cultural … generate a lag between the introduction of unemployment insurance and a deterioration of the work ethic. Relying on a … calibration, I argue that it can account for a substantial fraction of the history of European unemployment since World War II. As …

The paper analyses the performance of unemployment benefit systems in a search-theoretic framework. The criteria of …

A dynamic labor matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitled to unemployment insurance … (UI) or unemployment assistance (UA), and the employees are either eligible for UI or UA upon future separations … unemployment, while raising UI benefits harms the unemployed on assistance and raises unemployment. Easier eligibility fo r UI also …

This paper is intended to make a contribution to the empirical literature explaining the rise of unemployment since the … successfully absorb the workers released from the agriculture and industry sector. The result is higher unemployment. …

and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) strictness on one hand, and Unemployment Insurance …

this area. We look at changes in unemployment benefits and the imposition of benefit sanctions as a means of studying the … benefit regime crime rose by more. These were also the areas with higher outflows from unemployment and particularly to people …