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that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment. …
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that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment. …
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Sick leave payments represent a significant portion of public health expenditures and labor costs. Reductions in replacement levels are a commonly used instrument to tackle moral hazard and to increase the efficiency of the health insurance market. In Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI)...
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Sick leave payments represent a significant portion of public health expenditures and labor costs. Reductions in replacement levels are a commonly used instrument to tackle moral hazard and to increase the efficiency of the health insurance market. In Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017389
trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will … in sick pay. In the empirical investigation, we find a positive relationship between trade union membership and absence …-members. These findings suggest that more flexibility in the use of paid absence due to sickness constitutes a private gain from …
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trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will … in sick pay. In the empirical investigation, we find a positive relationship between trade union membership and absence …-members. These findings suggest that more flexibility in the use of paid absence due to sickness constitutes a private gain from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567126
In Germany, individuals in need of long-term care receive support through benefits of the long-term care insurance. A central goal of the insurance is to support informal care provided by family members. Care recipients can choose between benefits in kind (formal home care services) and benefits...
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Germany introduced a new mandatory insurance for long-term care in 1995 as part of its social security system. It replaced a system based on meanstested social welfare. Benefits from the long-term care insurance are not means tested and depend on the required level of care. The insurance...
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In Germany, individuals in need of long-term care receive support through benefits of the long-term care insurance. A central goal of the insurance is to support informal care provided by family members. Care recipients can choose between benefits in kind (formal home care services) and benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960387
This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...
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