The paper evaluates the performance of the Takaful and insurance companies in Malaysia. It examines the impact of … knowledge, this paper is the first to compare the Takaful with conventional insurance in Malaysia concerning their performance … Malaysian Takaful and insurance companies with 255 firm observations over the period from 2011 to 2016. The study's findings …

This paper presents evidence on how firms react to a more generous insurance against high sick pay costs. We exploit a … reform launched in Sweden in 2015, which introduced different thresholds for insurance reimbursement depending on firm size … evidence indicating that the more generous insurance made firms more inclined to employ more sick-prone individuals. Further …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …