نتایج جستجو برای: informal insurance jel classification g29

تعداد نتایج: 579931  

2011
Stephen Drinkwater

Informal Caring and Labour Market Outcomes Within England and Wales This paper focuses on the links between informal care provision and labour market activity at the sub-national level. Within-country analysis of this issue has been very limited to date despite the wide regional variations in informal care provision that often exist. This issue is important in the context of policy decisions in...

2015
Jinjun XUE Wenshu GAO Lin GUO

Article history: Received 7 February 2014 Received in revised form 27 July 2014 Accepted 28 July 2014 Available online 5 August 2014 This paper discusses the issue of informal employment and its effect on the income distribution in China using datasets from the China Urban Labour Surveys of 2005 and 2010. Based on a new definition of informal employment, we estimated the proportion of informal ...

2010
Olena Nizalova

The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account for the fact that the wage rate is likely to be corr...

2014
David M. Dror Lucy A. Firth

We identify the need for a theory of demand for health insurance suited to the informal sector in lowand middle income countries (LMIC) where some 3 billion people lack health cover. Excluded from formal governance structures, they rely on informal arrangements by which rulesin-use shape choices, behaviours and decisions. We explore the fundamental assumptions of standard economic theories of d...

2005
GARANCE GENICOT DEBRAJ RAY

In a credit market with enforcement constraints, we study the effects of a change in the outside options of a potential defaulter on the terms of the credit contract, as well as on borrower payoffs. The results crucially depend on the allocation of “bargaining power” between the borrower and the lender. We prove that there is a crucial threshold of relative weights such that if the borrower has...

Journal: :medical journal of islamic republic of iran 0
ali aboutorabi department of health economics, school of health management and information sciences, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.سازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران (iran university of medical sciences) maryam ghiasipour department of health management & economics, school of health sciences, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.سازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران (tehran university of medical sciences) aziz rezapour department of health economics, school of health management and information sciences & health management and economics research center, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.سازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران (iran university of medical sciences) abolghasem pourreza department of health management & economics, school of health sciences, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.سازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران (tehran university of medical sciences) ali sarabi asiabar department of management development and resource planning, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.سازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران (iran university of medical sciences) asghar tanoomand department of microbiology, faculty of medical sciences, maragheh university of medical sciences, maragheh, iran.سازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مراغه (maragheh university of medical sciences)

background: informal payments in the health sector of many developing countries are considered as a major impediment to health care reforms. informal payments are a form of systemic fraud and have adverse effects on the performance of the health system. in this study, the frequency and extent of informal payments as well as the determinants of these payments were investigated in general hospita...

2000
Xiaodong Gong Arthur van Soest Elizabeth Villagomez

Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico ∗ We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the informal sector, and not working. We use a dynamic multinomial logit panel data model with random effects, explaining the labor market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Me...

2012
Andreas Landmann Björn Vollan Markus Frölich

Insurance versus Savings for the Poor: Why One Should Offer Either Both or None This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of two different insurance products and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity groups of three and i...

2014
Kathryn Vasilaky Daniel Osgood Sofia Martinez Radost Stanimirova

We study the effect of offering index insurance to groups versus individuals on individual’s savings and insurance decisions in a lab experiment in the field, which offers real index insurance. We also look at how the network relationships among dairy farmers in the Dominican Republics affects the demand for group index insurance. Individuals offered group insurance are exogenously grouped acco...

2006
Kanika Kapur

The cost of health insurance has been the primary concern of small business owners for several decades. State small group health insurance reforms, implemented in the 1990s, aimed to control the variability of health insurance premiums and to improve access to health insurance. Small group reforms only affected firms within a specific size range, and the definition of the upper size threshold f...

نمودار تعداد نتایج جستجو در هر سال

با کلیک روی نمودار نتایج را به سال انتشار فیلتر کنید