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Linkage between benefit expenditure and premium burden: Long-term care insurance in Japan
Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi; Sugahara, Kota; Kunizaki, Minoru - 2013
This study considers the discretionary premium-setting behavior of municipalities in the Japanese system of long … show that municipalities seem to have discretion in premium setting. Cities, in particular, set premiums low, reflecting … elderly political power. In addition, premiums are influenced elderly political power when few neighboring municipalities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294380
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Welfare-induced migration of the elderly in Japan: Gender differences in welfare migration patterns among the elderly
Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi - 2012
supporting the elderly at home. Thus, the elderly in Japan often want to move to municipalities that have a greater availability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294396
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Determinants of local public expenditures on education: Empirical evidence for Indonesian districts between 2005 and 2012
Bischoff, Ivo; Prasetyia, Ferry - 2015
results are in line studies from other countries showing that educational expenditures are rising in the municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406151
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Long-term care insurance facilities and interregional migration of the elderly in Japan
Kawase, Akihiro; Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi - 2009
Using municipality-level data of Japan, this paper empirically examines how the capacity of long-term care insurance facilities impacts interregional migration of the elderly. We construct net-migration data of the elderly population in each municipality by combining statistics available from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265898
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Vocational schools as an instrument of interregional competition: Empirical evidence from German counties
Bischoff, Ivo; Hauschildt, Julia - 2017
The German apprenticeship system is widely known throughout the world. We analyze expenditures on vocational schools on county level using data from 213 West-German counties between 2001 and 2006. We use spatial econometrics to test for spatial correlation in counties' expenditure on vocational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787814
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Leaders' impact on public spending priorities: The case of the German Laender
Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2012
We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1993-2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an investigation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281474
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Estimating and predicting the distribution of the number of visits to the medical doctor
Dai, Jing; Zucchini, Walter; Sperlich, Stefan - 2011
In many countries the demand for health care services is of increasing importance. Especially in the industrialized world with a changing demographic structure social insurances and politics face real challenges. Reliable predictors of those demand functions will therefore become invaluable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286367
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Fiscal reform in Spanish municipalities: Gender differences in budgetary adjustment
García, Israel; Hayo, Bernd - 2023
institutional framework? After the 2013 Spanish municipal reform, municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants were no longer … municipalities from the Madrid region for 2010-2019, we compare gender differences in social services spending before and after the … reform between municipalities below 20,000 inhabitants (control group) and above 20,000 inhabitants (treatment group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374481
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The effects of high skilled immigration in a dual labour market with union wage setting and fiscal redistribution
Bonn, Moritz - 2011
We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market for low skilled labour is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme. Based on the empirical fact that high and low skilled workers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286354
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Voting on the threat of exclusion in a public goods experiment
Dannenberg, Astrid; Haita-Falah, Corina; Zitzelsberger, … - 2019
Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation and excluding members who show anti-social behaviors or attitudes. In this paper, we use a public goods experiment to study whether groups choose to implement an institution that allows for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111124