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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"social insurance"”.
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The incentive effects of health-targeted social insurance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Essays on the Economics of Private and Social Insurance
… joint with Sylvia Klosin, studies the 'scope' of insurance. Distinct risks are typically insured separately. A single 'aggregate' contract that pays more when many shocks occur simultaneously, but less when positive shocks offset negative shocks, is utility-increasing absent moral hazard. However, …
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Take cover: Incentivising wider social insurance participation in South Africa
This paper examines the gap in social insurance coverage in semi-formal enterprises, and explores options for incentivising participation by lower income workers in a comprehensive statutory social security scheme. A probit model is used to quantify current patterns of UIF and pension coverage. The …
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Decent work in Malawi: social security; extension of social insurance to all workers
The only way Malawi can ensure adequate social security coverage to her citizens is to extend the scope and coverage of social security benefits provided by the labour legislations to all workers as they are more reliable and less burdensome on the poor state. This is premised on the fact that most …
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Social insurance provision for women in the urban informal sector : interpreting the successful strategy of Working Women's Forum, India
… of workers that do not receive secure wages or social benefits from either the employer or the state. As this notion of the "benevolent" state purported in the 1950's disintegrates, one finds development literature focusing squarely on formation of social movements as solutions. This study …
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The development of social insurance : an analysis of the effects of the introduction of the National Social Security Scheme (NSSS) in Zimbabwe
… thesis that I am submitting to the department of Insurance and Investment studies at the City University Business School is essentially a report on the development, formation, operation and effects of the NSSS to the local Zimbabwean market. The NSSS is a quasi- independent government company that …
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The rise and fall of fraternal methods of social insurance : a case study of the Independent Order of Oddfellows of British Columbia sickness insurance, 1874-1951
… welfare state emphasize that traditional social welfare institutions were always inadequate and it took the Depression to demonstrate the need for better, more comprehensive arrangements. Beyond the enlightening influence of the Depression, the rise of current welfare state institutions is …
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Teismų praktikos, nagrinėjant bylas dėl socialinio draudimo pensijų, analizė /
Analysis of Court Jurisprudence on Social Security Pensions State social insurance pensions are benefits that can be distinguished from other social benefits based on their nature and significance. These benefits have to provide maintenance for individuals, who are considered to be incapable of …
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Lietuvos Respublikos Valstybinio socialinio draudimo fondo mokamų pensijų administravimo analizė /
Bachelor's thesis dealt with the social benefits and the strategic aspects of governance. Thesis consists of theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part (Chapters I and II) gives an overview of the welfare state model, the state social insurance system concept, Lithuania and other Baltic …
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Relationships and Communication
Chapter one of this thesis examines how tying social insurance to marriage influences matching and marital decisions in the context of Sweden, and draws implications for when it is optimal to separate social insurance from marriage in modern societies. Chapter two analyzes firms' communication …
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Essays on economies with heterogeneous labor
… potential equilibria. The first chapter, Optimal Social Insurance with Individual Private Insurance and Moral Hazard, characterizes optimal social insurance in an economy where competitive firms also provide insurance to workers facing uncertain outcomes. An ex-ante heterogeneous population of …
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Essays on Disability and the Labour Market
… the availability of additional income through social insurance. I build and estimate a structural life-cycle model of education and labour market choices to analyze the effect of social insurance on education investments for early-onset individuals. I focus on two social insurance policies in …
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Social protection for the migrant worker in South Africa
… of this dissertation is to investigate the social protection, if any, afforded to migrant workers in South Africa. To accomplish this purpose, the ambit of the concept of ‘social protection’ is investigated and the legal status and different categories of migrant workers are probed. The …
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Hours vs. Employment: The Determinants of Labor Market Adjustment Since The Great Depression
… unionization and development of employer-funded social insurance programs.
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Tryggheten inför rätta : Om rätten till förtidspension enligt förvaltningsdomstolarna under tre decennier
… the need for an adjusted and financially stable insurance has been commented on by politicians and by scholars. Numerous government reports have tackled both the costs of the program and the growing number of people granted disability pensions. During the last ten years the disability pension …
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Essays in State Policy
… income taxation, environmental regulation, and social insurance. Chapter 1 looks at impacts of a particular policy in one state by comparing that state to select other states. Chapter 2 looks at factors influencing the adoption of a policy by a group of states, and aspects of implementation. …
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British Conservatism, 1945-1951: adapting to the age of collectivism.
… Service and implementing many of Beveridge’s social insurance recommendations. When the Tories returned to office, they pledged to leave most of their predecessors’ changes intact, including many of those which they had vehemently opposed in Opposition. This has led some historians and some …
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Population ageing, longevity and migration: an overlapping generations approach
… an unavoidable factor which has major economic, social, cultural and psychological implications. This thesis studies the main consequences of population ageing and the connections with the phenomenon of migration, The theoretical analysis is developed using Overlapping Generations Models (OLG). …
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Sjukskrivningssystemet : Sjuka som blir arbetslösa och arbetslösa som blir sjukskrivna
… bureaucrats at the employment agency and the social insurance agency carry out their work to return the unemployed ill back to work?” and; “How do the unemployed ill convey their intention of returning to work?” The main question and the two sub-questions are linked by the simple fact that …
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Essays on insurance markets
… of three chapters on adverse-selection type insurance markets. Chapter 1 develops a model for analyzing non-exclusive insurance markets. It establishes that the "screening" considerations of models following Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976)-long applied for analysis of exclusive-contract …
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