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A comparative perspective on long-term care systems

Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2022

adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …

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The German social long-term care insurance : structure and reform options

Arntz, Melanie; Sacchetto, Ralf; Spermann, Alexander; … - 2007

Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social … introduced in Germany. In recent years some drawbacks of the social long-term care insurance structure turned out to be in need …"Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social …

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Maybe "honor thy father and thy mother" : uncertain family aid and the design of social long term care insurance

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz - 2016

We study the role and design of private and public insurance programs when informal care is uncertain. Children's degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps parents who receive a low level of care, but it comes at the cost of crowding out informal care....

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What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?

Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 …

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Workers' moral hazard and insurer effort in disability insurance

Koning, Pierre; Lent, Max van - 2022

Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but also increases the financial gains of private insurers to reduce benefit costs. With increased...

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America : overview and assessment

Ferrer, Ana M.; Riddell, William Craig - 2011

The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee’s mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...

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Public and private insurance with costly transactions

Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2010

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...

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Voluntary public unemployment insurance

Parsons, Donald O.; Tranæs, Torben; Lilleør, Helene Bie - 2015

Denmark has drawn much attention for its active labor market policies, but is almost unique in offering a voluntary public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program - a less generous, means-tested social assistance plan - completes the system....

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts and collective wage determination

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2007

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In the present paper the wage and employment consequences of...

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How viable are unemployment insurance savings accounts : simulation results for Slovenia

Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2008

By simulating the working of the unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) in Slovenia using a methodology similar to Feldstein and Altman (1998), the paper examines two questions: how viable is this system as an alternative to traditional unemployment insurance (UI) system, and how the...

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