Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent …, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, to point out that expert witnesses were increasingly … concerned that unemployment relief and social services were inadequate to meet the needs of the community in 'Special Areas'. It …

: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike … reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting skills, reducing governments’ budgetary pressures …

intermediary, parameters of the information structure (precisions of public and private information), and the level of stress …

Standard insurance models predict that people with high (health) risks have high insurance coverage. It is empirically … documented that people with high income have lower health risks and are better insured. We show that income differences between … traditionally viewed as an intervention which increases efficiency and raises the utility of low health agents, we show that with a …

Vietnam is undertaking health financing reform in an attempt to achieve universal health insurance coverage by 2014 …. Changes in health insurance policies have doubled the overall coverage between 2004 and 2006. However, close examination of … health insurance system by 2006. This paper uses longitudinal data from VHLSS 2004 and 2006 to investigate the …

We analyze exclusive contracts between health care providers and insurers in a model where some consumers choose to …

In countries like the US and the Netherlands health insurance is provided by private firms. These private firms can … understood. Using a Dutch data set of about 700 group health insurance contracts over the period 2007-2008, we estimate a model …

When the government cannot commit to withdraw from providing charity health care, as is the case when it faces the … Samaritan's Dilemma, a pub- lic health insurance scheme can be Pareto improving. However, the large heterogeneity in the design … of such schemes observed around the world begs the question of what characterizes the optimal public health insurance …

This paper provides an analysis of the health insurance and health care consumption. A structural microeconomic model … of joint demand for health insurance and health care is developed and estimated using full maximum likelihood method … 100% to 10% increases the marginal demand for health care by about 90% and from 100% to 0% by about 150%. The correlation …