Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health insurance contracts. We consider the … recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance provision was replaced by a system … insurance system. This model provides us with a number of hypotheses, which we test using data from the Dutch Health Care …

Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …

self-reported satisfaction regarding their start-up. Our study identifies a new facet of procedural utility and offers new … entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up—not because their start-up fails to deliver financial returns, but …-financial incentives of entrepreneurs. While financial success is the most important determinant of start-up satisfaction, achievement of …

satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …

In this paper we investigate the mediating role of psychosocial benefits in the customer satisfaction …/dissatisfaction formation process. Most research on this subject deals with the causality direction of psychosocial benefits and satisfaction … psychosocial benefits within a customer satisfaction framework. Knowledge of which functional benefit can control which …

worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …

advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen as informal insurance which relies on the fact that bride wealth … insurance mechanisms, bride wealth qualifies as an important security enhancing institution: the arrangement covers nearly the … involved are large and the period of time during which the claims provide security long. Like any informal insurance …