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dc.contributor.authorKifmann, Mathiasen
dc.contributor.authorRoeder, Kerstinen
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-29-
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-30T15:33:49Z-
dc.date.available2012-10-30T15:33:49Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/65669-
dc.description.abstractPremium 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Hamburg, Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) |cHamburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aHCHE Research Paper |x2011/01en
dc.subject.jelH21en
dc.subject.jelH51en
dc.subject.jelI18en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordsocial insuranceen
dc.subject.keywordhealth insuranceen
dc.subject.keywordredistributive taxationen
dc.subject.keywordequityen
dc.subject.stwGesetzliche Krankenversicherungen
dc.subject.stwVersicherungsprämieen
dc.subject.stwSubventionen
dc.subject.stwGesundheiten
dc.subject.stwArbeitsproduktivitäten
dc.subject.stwWohlfahrtsanalyseen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titlePremium subsidies and social insurance: Substitutes or complements?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn727576186en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:hcherp:201101en

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