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The Convergence of Health Care Financing Structures: Empirical Evidence from OECD-Countries

In this paper we concentrate on the question whether the financing structure of the health care systems converges. In a world of increasing economic integration convergence in health care financing (HCF) and, hence, decreasing differences in HCF across countries enhance individuals’ (labour) mobility and support harmonization processes. As an indicator for convergence we take the public financing ratio in % of total HCF and in % of GDP. The major finding is that HCF in the OECD countries converged in the time period 1970 – 2005. This conlusion also holds when looking at smaller sub groups of countries and shorter time periods. However, we find evidence that countries do not move towards a common mean and that the rate of convergence is decreasing over time.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: NRN Working Paper, NRN: The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State ; No. 0912

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Social Security and Public Pensions
Thema
Convergence
health care system
health care financing

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Leiter, Andrea
Theurl, Engelbert
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State
(wo)
Linz
(wann)
2009

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Leiter, Andrea
  • Theurl, Engelbert
  • Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State

Entstanden

  • 2009

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