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The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance - Structure and Reform Options
Arntz, Melanie; Sacchetto, Ralf; Spermann, Alexander; … - 2021
In Germany, long-term care is an important issue due to an aging population and shrinking social networks that result … Germany. Long-term care insurance funds are generally linked to health insurance funds. The benefits are financed by virtue of … transition to a sustainable long-term care insurance in Germany …
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Copayments in the German Health System : Does it Work?
Augurzky, Boris - 2006
This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural experiment. In January 2004, copayments of 10 euros for the first doctor visit in each quarter have been introduced for all adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779359
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An Empirical Assessment of Workload and Migrants' Health in Germany
Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
Workload and its physical and mental burden can have detrimental effects on individual health. As different jobs are associated with specific patterns of health development, occupational selection of socioeconomic groups can be attributed to health differences in society. Despite a long economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314742
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The Effect of Private Health Insurance on Medical Care Utilization and Self-Assessed Health in Germany
Hullegie, Patrick - 2010
In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …
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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
Akaichi, Faical - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864872
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868797
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Informal and Formal Care in Europe
Viitanen, Tarja K. - 2021
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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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
Akaichi, Faical; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Frank, Richard G. - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083403
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Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer, Bjoern - 2023
market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356711
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The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage : Evidence from the Great Recession
Cawley, John - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in...
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