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Why are there more accidents on mondays? : economic incentives, ergonomics or externalities
Poland, Michelle; Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2019
Research consistently finds more workplace injuries occur on Mondays than on other weekdays. One hypothesis is that workers fraudulently claim that off-the-job weekend sprains and strains occurred at work on the Monday in order to receive workers' compensation. We test this using data from New...
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Migration, redistribution and the universal welfare model
Andersen, Torben M. - 2012
egalitarian outcomes are achieved while work incentives and thus a high employment rate crucial for the financial viability of the … immigration, which may change the composition of the population in the ability and/or preference dimension. -- work incentives …
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Modeling financial incentives to get unemployed back to work
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...
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From unemployment benefits to unemployment accounts
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the balances in these accounts would then be available to...
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Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile : good for work incentives?
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor market experience to unemployment benefits after a...
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Do market incentives in the hospital industry affect subjective health perceptions? : evidence from the Italian PPS-DRG reform
Cappellari, renzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2014
' perceived health and their access to a number of health services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via …
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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care
Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing … admit more profitable out-of-pocket private payers. Third, providers react more elastically to financial incentives than … patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …
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How do low-income enrollees in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces respond to cost-sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019
The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...
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The design of insurance coverage for medical products under imperfect competition
Bardey, David; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2015
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies...
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Exit, voice or loyalty? : an investigation into mandated portability of front-loaded private health plans
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...
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