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Impacts of universal health coverage : a micro-founded macroeconomic perspective
Huang, Xianguo; Yoshino, Naoyuki - 2015
This paper studies the impact of tax-financed universal health coverage schemes on macroeconomic aspects of labor supply, asset holding, inequality, and welfare, while taking into account features common to developing economies, such as informal employment and tax avoidance, by constructing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283723
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Market organization, search and efficiency : essays in applied microeconomics
Smith, Eric - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000867592
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Risk sharing in labour markets
Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2003 - Rev.
insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334356
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Insurance-markets equilibrium with double indivisible labor supply
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2016
This paper describes the lottery- and insurance-market equilibrium in an economy with both private and public sector …, the framework requires that there should be separate insurance markets: a public- and private sector one, which would pool … the unemployment risk of the corresponding group of households. The unemployment insurance market segmentation is a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514599
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Insurance-markets equilibrium with sequential non-convex private- and public-sector labor supply
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2016
This paper describes the lottery- and insurance-market equilibrium in an economy with non-convex private- and public … separate insurance market to operate, one for private-sector work, and one for public- sector employment. In addition, given … that the labor choice for private- and public- sector hours is made in succession, the insurance market for public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538845
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Insurance-markets equilibrium with sequential non-convex private- and public-sector labor supply
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2017
This paper describes the lottery- and insurance-market equilibrium in an economy with non-convex private- and public … separate insurance market to operate, one for private-sector work, and one for public-sector employment. In addition, given … that the labor choice for private- and public-sector hours is made in succession, the insurance market for public emloyment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011593833
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Insurance-markets equilibrium with a non-convex labor supply decision, unobservable effort, and efficiency wages of the "no-shirking" type
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2018
The purpose of this paper is to describe the lottery- and insurance-market equilibrium in an economy with non …). The presence of indivisible labor creates a market incompleteness, which requires that an insurance market for (un …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974126
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)
the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … whether he was perhaps overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients … found to partially offset the adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490343
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014
stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients consult more often and … adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413597
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Does medicaid coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal health behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George - 2016
Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452186