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Can Private Insurers Fail to Cream-Skim the Public Option? Evidence from the Individual Mandate in Germany

Polyakova, Maria - 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that if private health insurance plans compete alongside a public option, they may endanger the latter's financial stability by cream-skimming good risks. Documenting cream-skimming in dual insurance systems empirically is challenging, since selection into private...

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Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia : A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada

Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2021

) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of … parallel systems of public and private finance. This paper examines Australia's experience with parallel finance for inpatient … of the broader political economy associated with parallel systems of finance. Australia's experience provides a number of …

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Parallel private health insurance in Australia : a cautionary tale and lessons for Canada

Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2002

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Parallel private health insurance in Australia : a cautionary tale and lessons for Canada

Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2002

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...

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The Drivers of Public Health Spending : Integrating Policies and Institutions

De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of policies and institutions on health expenditures for a large panel of OECD countries for the period 2000-10. We use a set of 20 policy and institutional indicators developed by the OECD characterising the main supply-side, demand-side, and public management,...

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2017

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Comparing the German and Japanese nursing home sectors : implications of demographic and policy differences

Karmann, Alexander; Sugawara, Shinya - 2022

This research provides a comparative study of the Japanese and German nursing home sectors. Faced with aging populations, both countries share similar long-term care policies based on social insurance. However, descriptive statistics indicate significant differences in the outcomes and costs in...

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

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