Comparing the German and Japanese nursing home sectors: Implications of demographic and policy differences
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Keywords
Japanese and German nursing home sectors; long-term care insurance; Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition; comparative study; moral hazard; welfare policy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2022-08-08 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-EUR-2022-08-08 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HEA-2022-08-08 (Health Economics)
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