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The German social long-term care insurance : structure and reform options
Arntz, Melanie; Sacchetto, Ralf; Spermann, Alexander; … - 2007
Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social … introduced in Germany. In recent years some drawbacks of the social long-term care insurance structure turned out to be in need …"Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social …
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A comparative perspective on long-term care systems
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2022
adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …
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Long-term care partnership effects on Medicaid and private insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh - 2021
Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation of the long-term care insurance partnership (LTCIP) program, a joint federal and state-level...
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Impact of increased long-term care insurance payments on employment and wages in formal long-term care
Kondo, Ayako - 2019
This paper examines the effect of raising Long-term Care Insurance (LTCI) payments on employment and wages of workers in the long-term care (LTC) industry. Specifically, I use the change in the regional premium in 2012 as an exogenous shock to the insurance fee schedule: the change in the unit...
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Long-term care in Latin America and the Caribbean? : theory and policy considerations
Bloeck, Martín Caruso; Galiani, Sebastián; … - 2017
This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic transition from its currently young population to a rapidly aging one, especially since the region's...
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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance
Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer, Björn - 2023
market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance …
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The design of insurance contracts for home versus nursing home long-term care
Borsenberger, Claire; Cremer, Helmuth; Joram, Denis; … - 2024
We study the design of optimal (private and/or social) insurance schemes for formal home care and institutional care. We consider a three period model. Individuals are either in good health, lightly dependent or heavily dependent. Lightly dependent individuals can buy formal home care which...
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Informal and formal care in Europe
Viitanen, Tarja K. (contributor) - 2007
"Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women's informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for...
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Maybe "honor thy father and thy mother" : uncertain family aid and the design of social long term care insurance
Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz - 2016
We study the role and design of private and public insurance programs when informal care is uncertain. Children's degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps parents who receive a low level of care, but it comes at the cost of crowding out informal care....
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Uninsured by choice? : a choice experiment on long term care insurance
Akaichi, Faical; Costa-Font, Joan; Frank, Richard G. - 2019
We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, and more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in the United States with and without insurance. We study the valuation of the following insurance...
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