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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031546
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Parallel private health insurance in Australia : a cautionary tale and lessons for Canada
Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001685760
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Parallel private health insurance in Australia : a cautionary tale and lessons for Canada
Hurley, Jeremiah E.; Vaithianathan, Rhema; Crossley, … - 2002
) 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411845
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320488
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
Pichler, Stefan - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970324
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : a method to test for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487529
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386819
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339778
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340177
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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare
Mundle, Sudipto - 2018
This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over 50 years. Apart from differences in initial conditions and income levels, the nature of the state has also been an important determinant of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898729