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In many markets insurers are barred from price discrimination based on con- sumer characteristics like age, gender, and medical history. In this paper, I build on a recent literature to show why such policies are inefficient if consumers differ in their willingness-to-pay for insurance...
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Die Sondierungsgespräche zwischen der Union und der SPD haben die Diskussion über eine Reform der Krankenversicherung … gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung für 90% der Bevölkerung nicht nur ein stabiles, funktionsfähiges und überaus akzeptiertes, sondern … gesetzlicher und privater Krankenversicherung nicht zu einem sinnvollen Systemwettbewerb, sondern läuft auf einen …
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Die Einbeziehung der privaten Krankenversicherung (PKV) in den Risikostrukturausgleich (RSA) der gesetzlichen … Krankenversicherung (GKV) wird häufig diskutiert. In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand einer quantitativen Analyse unter Verwendung der …
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Die effektiv zu zahlende Prämie bestimmt sich in der Privaten Krankenversicherung als Summe aus Tarifbeiträgen … Selbsttragung in der Krankenversicherung die finanziellen Folgen der Änderung eines realen Beitragsrückerstattungssystems untersucht …
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Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...
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Krankenversicherung durch unterschiedliche Vertragsmodelle Steuerungsmöglichkeiten vorliegen. Zu Beginn wird ein kurzer Überblick über die …
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Conventional theory holds that moral hazard - the additional health care purchased as a result of becoming insured - is an opportunistic price response and is welfare-decreasing because the value of the additional health care purchased is less than its costs. The theory of the demand for health...
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This paper presents theory that an important source of value is missing from conventional theory of the demand for health insurance, namely, the effect of the transfer of income (from those who purchase insurance and remain healthy to those who purchase insurance and become ill) on purchases of...
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We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...
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Between the years 1996 and 2003, a series of amendments were made to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86) that gradually increased the tax credit for health insurance purchases by the self-employed from 25 to 100 percent. We study how these changes in the tax code have influenced the likelihood...
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