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The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance - Structure and Reform Options

Arntz, Melanie; Sacchetto, Ralf; Spermann, Alexander; … - 2021

In Germany, long-term care is an important issue due to an aging population and shrinking social networks that result … Germany. Long-term care insurance funds are generally linked to health insurance funds. The benefits are financed by virtue of … transition to a sustainable long-term care insurance in Germany …

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What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?

Aretz, Bodo - 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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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions

Bertola, Giuseppe - 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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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America : Overview and Assessment

Ferrer, Ana M. - 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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Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance

Parsons, Donald O. - 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...

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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination

Goerke, Laszlo - 2021

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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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance

Akaichi, Faical; Costa-Font, Joan; Frank, Richard G. - 2022

We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, and more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in the United States with and without insurance.We study the valuation of the following insurance...

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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 - 2017

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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Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Caruso Bloeck, Martin - 2017

This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic transition from its currently young population to a rapidly aging one, especially since the region's...

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Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh - 2022

Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation of the long-term care insurance partnership (LTCIP) program, a joint federal and state-level...

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