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Aged-Care Support in Japan : Perspectives and Challenges
Mitchell, Olivia S.; Piggott, John; Shimizutani, Satoshi - 2021
This study explores economic aspects of the market for long term care (LTC) with a special focus on Japan. First, we … describe the LTC system in Japan as presently implemented, and we highlight some aspects of the program that are novel and … of Japanese LTC utilization and costs. Finally, since Japan appears likely to experience important shortfalls in LTC in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236835
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Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan
Ono, Hiroshi; Rebick, Marcus E. - 2021
benchmark, we estimate that removal of these barriers would increase the productive labor supply in Japan by some 13 to 18 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225558
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Estimation of a Simultaneous Model of Married Women'S Labor Force Participation and Fertility in Urban Japan
Yamada, Tadashi; Yamada, Tetsuji - 2021
Japan in past decades. Relative to empirical studies of a traditional single equation on female labor supply, there exist … fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a … simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237957
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Insuring Long Term Care in the Us
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2011
Long-term care expenditures constitute one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly in the United States. This paper provides an overview of the economic and policy issues surrounding insuring long-term care expenditure risk. Through this lens we also discuss the likely impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120201
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Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin - 2011
This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122669
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Health Information Technology and Patient Outcomes : The Role of Organizational and Informational Complementarities
McCullough, Jeffrey - 2013
Health information technology (IT) adoption, it is argued, will dramatically improve patient care. We study the impact of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in affecting IT's value and explore underlying mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088406
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Integration and Task Allocation : Evidence from Patient Care
David, Guy - 2013
We develop a formal model to show how integration solves task allocation problems between organizations and test the predictions of the model, using a large and rich patient-level dataset on hospital discharges to nursing homes and home health care. As predicted by the theory, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092389
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Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs : Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals
Einav, Liran - 2017
We study the design of provider incentives in the post-acute care setting – a high-stakes but under-studied segment of the healthcare system. We focus on long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and the large (approximately $13,000) jump in Medicare payments they receive when a patient's stay reaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964400
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Long-Term Care Insurance : Knowledge Barriers, Risk Perception and Adverse Selection
Boyer, M. Martin - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834599
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Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured : Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length
Gresenz, Carole R. - 2007
Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776856