Arbeitspapier
Premium subsidies and social insurance: Substitutes or complements?
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: HCHE Research Paper ; No. 2011/01
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
National Government Expenditures and Health
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- Thema
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social insurance
health insurance
redistributive taxation
equity
Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung
Versicherungsprämie
Subvention
Gesundheit
Arbeitsproduktivität
Wohlfahrtsanalyse
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kifmann, Mathias
Roeder, Kerstin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE)
- (wo)
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Hamburg
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kifmann, Mathias
- Roeder, Kerstin
- University of Hamburg, Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE)
Entstanden
- 2011
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