Foreign life insurers

The process of globalization with the investment and penetration of foreign insurers has strong impact to the emerging insurance markets, including Vietnam. The article concentrates on analysis the effects of investment and penetration of foreign insurers on the Vietnam’s life insurance market.

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Using 2009–2017 Taiwanese insurance company data from the database of Taiwan Economic Journal, we employ Simar–Wilson bootstrapping to prevent efficiency overestimation in data envelopment analysis (DEA) and then regress the factors on these efficiency scores by using a truncated rather than traditional Tobit model. Evidence shows that the companies’ modified average efficiency score is 0.8784 (0.9068 using DEA). Meanwhile, domestic insurers outperform foreign insurers, and larger companies perform more poorly.

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In 1996 the debate regarding the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act centered on the necessity to screen foreigneducated health care professionals seeking employment in the United States. The focused and controversial discussion also raised cogent points regarding the qualifications of an entity to perform such an assessment. Based on its established track record in providing credentialing services to a variety of health occupations, CGFNS International was named in the Act to provide health professions screening when the law passed.

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Health is largely determined by our social, economic, physical and cultural environment. Although, as we move further into the 21st century, we can see improvements for many people, inequalities in health and health outcomes still persist. The differences in life chances are dramatic and there is a direct correlation between low socio- economic status and poor health outcomes4. Health inequalities affect both women and babies.

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