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Sickness absence, moral hazard, and the business cycle

Pichler, Stefan - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 6, pp. 692-710

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Health Insurance Coverage and the Macroeconomy

Cawley, John - 2003

The primary objective of this paper is to improve our understanding of the historic relationship between state and national macroeconomic climate and the health insurance coverage of Americans. The secondary objective of this paper is to use the historic findings to estimate how the number of...

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Unemployment, Health Insurance, and the COVID-19 Recession

Gangopadhyaya, Anuj - 2020

The sharp reduction in US economic activity associated with public health efforts to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus will likely result in millions of Americans losing their jobs, at least temporarily. Adding insult to injury, many Americans who lose their jobs could also lose their health...

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Business cycle sensitivity of statutory health insurance: evidence from the Czech Republic

Landovská, Petra - 2020

Since the Czech healthcare system financing is based on Statutory Health Insurance scheme, it relies heavily on wage-based contributions from employers and employees and thus may be prone to business cycle fluctuations. This turned out to be a problem after the 2008 financialcrisis when the...

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Business cycle sensitivity of Statutory Health Insurance : evidence from the Czech Republic

Landovská, Petra - 2024

Background The Statutory Health Insurance scheme is one of two main schemes of health care system financing in Europe. This scheme mainly relies on wage-based contributions from employers and employees and is thus prone to business cycle fluctuations. This turned out to be a problem especially...

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How the COVID-19 Recession Could Affect Health Insurance Coverage

Garrett, A. Bowen; Gangopadhyaya, Anuj - 2020

Thirty million workers filed initial unemployment claims between March 15 and April 25. As workers lose their jobs, many will also lose their employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI), as will their dependents. Some of these workers and dependents will qualify for Medicaid coverage, particularly...

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Sickness Absence, Moral Hazard, and the Business Cycle

Pichler, Stefan - 2015

The procyclical nature of sickness absence has been documented by many scholars in literature. So far, explanations have been based on labor force composition and reduced moral hazard caused by fear of job loss during recessions. In this paper, we propose and test a third mechanism caused by...

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Deutsche Wirtschaft in Frührjahr 2024: Erholung mit Hindernissen

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Groll, Dominik; Hoffmann, Timo; … - 2024

Die deutsche Wirtschaft müht sich aus der Stagnation. Im kommenden Jahr dürfte die Wirtschaftsleistung wieder zulegen. Eine große konjunkturelle Dynamik ist aber nicht absehbar. Vor allem die recht kräftigen Zuwächse des real verfügbaren Einkommens werden den privaten Konsum anschieben....

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Business Cycle Volatility in Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Doepke, Joerg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely ?good luck?. …

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

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