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Germany's Healthcare System : Funding, Resource Allocation, Provider Payment, Efficiency, and Access
Michaeli, Daniel T.; Yagmur, Hasan; Michaeli, Thomas - 2022
Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes, and access. Whilst health provision and access are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085051
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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based … disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307390
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Protecting working-age people with disabilities : experiences of four industrialized nations
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based … disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295543
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Insurance for HIV-infected People and Equality Law
Christian Armbr¨¹ster; Zillmann, Sandrina - In: Review of Economics & Finance 2 (2012) November, pp. 14-23
from a European and German perspective. As will be shown, the infection is to be qualified as a disability but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927792
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The biological standard of living in the two Germanies
Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001
Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in the two Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectionalsample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400292
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The biological standard of living in the two Germanies
Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2003
Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in the two Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectional sample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the 1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440940
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes: Testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341078
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes: Testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417855
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes: Testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011461722
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339778