hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more … physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care …

In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply …

This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in … Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed … risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a …

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 …

relationship in a market with regulated prices that is characterized by a high number of hospitals and a diverse ownership …

retirement regulations moderate the effects, thus emphasizing the importance of maintaining good physical health in old age for …

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of retirement on loneliness using panel data from the Survey of Health …, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across … and within countries and use retirement thresholds in an instrumental variable setting. On average, we find that entering …

We study effects of retirement on cognitive abilities (up to ten years after retirement) using data from 21 countries … in Continental Europe, England, and the US, and exploiting early-retirement thresholds for identification. For this … helps to decompose event-study estimates into true medium-run effects of retirement and effects driven by differential …