Abstract
Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show that the results crucially depend on the correlation of health and productivity. For a positive correlation, we find that combining premium subsidies with social insurance is the optimal policy.
| Dokumententyp: | Paper |
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| Fakultät: | Volkswirtschaft
Volkswirtschaft > Lehrstühle > Juniorprofessur für Finanzwissenschaften |
| Themengebiete: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Dokumenten ID: | 19469 |
| Datum der Veröffentlichung auf Open Access LMU: | 15. Apr. 2014 08:51 |
| Letzte Änderungen: | 29. Apr. 2016 09:16 |
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