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The Transition in East Germany: When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

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Health Insurance without Single Crossing: why healthy people have high coverage

Boone, Jan; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

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 risk types lead to a violation of single crossing...

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The Labor-Supply Effects of Universal Health Coverage: What Can We Learn form Individuals with Coverage Through Their Spouses?

Wellington, A.J.; Codd-Clark, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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Dynamics of health insurance ownership in Vietnam, 2004 – 06

Nguyen, Trong-Ha; Leung, Suiwah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

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 Vietnam Living Standard Surveys during this period...

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Selective contracting and foreclosure in health care markets

Bijlsma, Michiel; Boone, Jan; Zwart, Gijsbert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We analyze exclusive contracts between health care providers and insurers in a model where some consumers choose to stay uninsured. In case of a monopoly insurer, exclusion of a provider changes the distribution of consumers who choose not to insure. Although the foreclosed care provider remains...

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Health insurance competition: the effect of group contracts

Boone, Jan; Douven, Rudy; Droge, Carline; Mosca, Ilaria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In countries like the US and the Netherlands health insurance is provided by private firms. These private firms can offer both individual and group contracts. The strategic and welfare implications of such group contracts are not well understood. Using a Dutch data set of about 700 group health...

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Separating Selection and Incentive Effects in Health Insurance

Gardiol, Lucien; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves; Grandchamp, Chantal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

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 using Swiss insurance claims data for over 60,000 adult...

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Competition leverage: how the demand side affects optimal risk adjustment

Bijlsma, Michiel; Boone, Jan; Zwart, Gijsbert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study optimal risk adjustment in imperfectly competitive health insurance markets when high-risk consumers are less likely to switch insurer than low-risk consumers. First, we find that insurers still have an incentive to select even if risk adjustment perfectly corrects for cost differences...

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Parametric vs. Semi-parametric Estimation of the Male-Female Wage Gap: An Application to France

Breunig, Robert; Rospabe, Sandrine - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

We use a semi-parametric method to decompose the difference in male and female wage densities into two parts-one explained by characteristics and one which is attributable to differences in returns to characteristics. We demonstrate that one learns substantially more about the gender wage gap in...

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Admission to Selective Schools, Alphabetically

Jurajda, Stepan; Münich, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

One's position in an alphabetically sorted list may be important in determining access to rationed goods or oversubscribed public services. Motivated by anecdotal evidence, we investigate the importance of the position in the alphabet of the last name initial of Czech students for their...

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