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private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and … examine the role of uniform and nonuniform social insurance to supplement a general income tax when neither public nor private … (1971) equilibrium emerges in the private insurance market and low-wage/low-risk individuals are not fully insured. We show …
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This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy … trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … of breach is negligible. However, as for much B2C insurance marketing, face-to-face selling plays a crucial role in our …
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We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their … two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is provided by government authority and is designed to help small firms with … that the minimum cost of the present insurance scheme is similar to about 1100 man-years. On top of that comes a …
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Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) show that there need not exist a competitive equilibrium in markets with adverse selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents - an agent's utility upon accepting a contract depends on the average type attracted by the...
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The employer-sponsored life insurance (ESLI) market is particularly susceptible to adverse selection due to community …
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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
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.A fraction of the fat tax proceeds is "earmarked" to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a …
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This paper evaluates the labor market effects of sick pay mandates in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...
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We develop a stylized principal-agent model with moral hazard and adverse selection to provide a unified framework for understanding some of the most salient features of the recent physician payment reform in Ontario and its impact on physician behavior. These features include: (1) physicians...
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uncertainty decreases the rate of efficient service provision and leads to less trade. In theory, insurance also decreases the … that considers both diagnostic uncertainty of sellers and the effects of insurance coverage of consumers in a unified … framework. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment. Both in theory and in the experiment diagnostic …
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