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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …
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Waiting times for outpatient treatment in Germany: New experimental evidence from primary data
Heinrich, Nils; Wübker, Ansgar; Wuckel, Christiane - 2017
Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the...
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Strategies and implications of mitigating personnel shortages in nursing homes
Heger, Dörte; Herr, Annika; Lückemann, Maximilian; … - 2023
Amidst demographic shifts, advanced economies are facing critical nursing shortages. This study analyzes strategies of German nursing care providers to address these shortages using administrative data for the period 2007 to 2017. Our analysis reveals that higher nursing shortages correlate with...
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The impact of structural and strategic competition on hospital quality
Wuckel, Christiane - 2022
relationship in a market with regulated prices that is characterized by a high number of hospitals and a diverse ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342599
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Explaining Differentials in Subsidy Levels among Hospital Ownership Types in Germany
Pilny, Adam - 2014
German hospitals receive subsidies for investment costs by federal states. Theoretically, these subsidies have to cover … the whole investment volume, but in fact only 50%-60% are covered. Balance sheet data show that public hospitals exhibit … higher levels of subsidies compared to for-profit hospitals. In this study, I examine the sources of this disparity by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435319
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Explaining Differentials in Subsidy Levels among Hospital Ownership Types in Germany
Pilny, Adam - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
German hospitals receive subsidies for investment costs by federal states. Theoretically, these subsidies have to cover … the whole investment volume, but in fact only 50%-60% are covered. Balance sheet data show that public hospitals exhibit … higher levels of subsidies compared to for-profit hospitals. In this study, I examine the sources of this disparity by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100013
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The Impact of Private versus Social Health Insurance on Offered Waiting Times in German Acute Care Hospitals
Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar; Kuchinke, Björn A. - 2009
higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders. Further,we find that hospitals offering private insurees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265826
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The Impact of Private versus Social Health Insurance on Offered Waiting Times in German Acute Care Hospitals
Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar; Kuchinke, Björn A. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders. Further,we find that hospitals offering private insurees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005024335
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Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals: Establishing a causal link
Reichert, Arndt R.; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper aims to assess whether there is a causal relationship between weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286369
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Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes
Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2016
In this paper we estimate the long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where the average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011550613