TY - JOUR
T1 - Who bears the burden of social insurance? Evidence from Japanese health and long-term care insurance data
AU - Komamura, Kohei
AU - Yamada, Atsuhiro
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was originally prepared for presentation at the 16th Annual Trio Conference in Tokyo, December 8th and 9th, 2003, supported by NBER–CEPR–TCER–RIETI. This paper owes much to the thoughtful and helpful comments made by the discussants, Takero Doi and John Piggott, and other conference participants, especially Takeo Hoshi and Yasushi Iwamoto. We also deeply appreciate the valuable advice from Yoshiko Kido, Atsushi Maki, Hitoshi Hayami, Hiroki Kawai, and anonymous referees. Responsibility for the text with any surviving errors rests entirely upon the authors. We acknowledge financial support from the Research Promotion Program for Policy Sciences (the grant-in-aid by Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: H14-policy-13) and the 21 COE Program at Keio University (the grant-in-aid by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: I-1).
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - Using the society-managed health insurance data, which is cross-sectional time-series and covers 1670 health insurance societies for seven years (FY1995-2001), we found for the first time in Japan that the majority of the employers' contribution to health insurance is shifting back onto the employees in the form of wage reduction. On the other hand, we cannot find such evidence for the contribution to long-term care insurance using a two-year (FY2000-2001) panel data set. The difference can be theoretically explained by how employees value the contribution relative to social security benefits they enjoy.
AB - Using the society-managed health insurance data, which is cross-sectional time-series and covers 1670 health insurance societies for seven years (FY1995-2001), we found for the first time in Japan that the majority of the employers' contribution to health insurance is shifting back onto the employees in the form of wage reduction. On the other hand, we cannot find such evidence for the contribution to long-term care insurance using a two-year (FY2000-2001) panel data set. The difference can be theoretically explained by how employees value the contribution relative to social security benefits they enjoy.
KW - Health care insurance
KW - Incidence
KW - Long-term care insurance
KW - Social security contribution
KW - Wage reduction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jjie.2004.08.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jjie.2004.08.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:10144248964
SN - 0889-1583
VL - 18
SP - 565
EP - 581
JO - Journal of The Japanese and International Economies
JF - Journal of The Japanese and International Economies
IS - 4
ER -