In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

private health insurance plays a significant role in faster access to care at GP and specialist practices. Access to care is … waiting time in practices and on waiting time for an appointment in GP practices. Whether inequalities in access to health …

How happy are first-generation immigrants in Germany today? How do patterns of formal or informal discrimination affect …Wie glücklich sind Migranten der ersten Generation in Deutschland heute? Wie beeinflussen formelle oder informelle … subjective well-being of immigrants has declined continuously between 1984 and 2008. Social discrimination has a negative effect …

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting … times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the … or with less discrimination. …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in … Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in … Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit …, 2004, and 2006 that measure individual health more accurately and include risk-attitudes towards health in order to … determine the price elasticity of demand for health care. A latent class approach that takes into account the panel structure of …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

the Health Sector Reform Strategy. The last section concludes and provides some policy recommendations. …