The Demand for Social Insurance: Does Culture Matter?

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serval:BIB_CE1BB13AE077
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
The Demand for Social Insurance: Does Culture Matter?
Journal
The Economic Journal
Author(s)
Eugster B., Lalive R., Steinhauer A., Zweimüller J.
ISSN
1468-0297
Publication state
Published
Issued date
11/2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
121
Number
556
Pages
F413-F448
Language
english
Abstract
Does culture shape the demand for social insurance against risks to health and work? We study this issue across language groups in Switzerland where a language border sharply separates social groups at identical actual levels of publicly provided social insurance. We find substantially stronger support for expansions of social insurance among residents of French, Italian or Romansh-speaking language border municipalities compared with their German-speaking neighbours in adjacent municipalities. Informal insurance does not vary enough to explain stark differences in social insurance but differences in ideology and segmented media markets potentially contribute to the discrepancy in demand for social insurance.
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