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Zusatzbeiträge erhöhen die Preistransparenz: mehr Versicherte wechseln die Krankenkasse
Eibich, Peter; Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 51/52, pp. 3-12
Die 2009 implementierte Gesundheitsreform hat die Preistransparenz und somit die Verbraucherfreundlichkeit innerhalb der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) zunächst deutlich erhöht und die Bereitschaft der Versicherten gefördert, auf Preiserhöhungen mit einem Wechsel der Krankenkasse zu...
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Overcoming resistance against managed care: Insights from a bargaining model
Ehlert, Andree; Wein, Thomas; Zweifel, Peter - In: Health Economics Review 7 (2017) 19, pp. 1-9
Recent healthcare reforms have sought to increase efficiency by introducing managed care (MC) while respecting consumer preferences by admitting choice between MC and conventional care. This article proposes an institutional change designed to let German consumers choose between the two settings...
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Add-on premiums increase price transparency: More policy holders switch health plans
Eibich, Peter; Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 2, pp. 15-24
The German health care reform implemented in 2009 led to a considerable increase in price transparency within the statutory health insurance (SHI) (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) system and also made it more consumer-friendly which, in turn, has encouraged policy holders to react to price...
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Planes mínimos obligatorios en mercados de seguros de salud segmentados
Beteta, Edmundo; Willington, Manuel - In: Estudios de Economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 217-241
We analyze the effect of introducing a minimum mandatory health insurance plan in a segmented market in which high risks are affiliated to the public insurer and low risks to the private ones (market segmentation is endogenously obtained in our model). We assume both types of insurers must...
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Types of private financing of medical care by patients in Poland
Paszkowska, Małgorzata - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 7 (2011) 3, pp. 59-74
The share of privately paid medical care is steadily increasing. Polish patients pay immediately for single services and may also privately conclude the contracts for medical insurance or subscription (steady access to complex private medical care). The aim of this paper is to draw the reader's...
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From never partnered to serial cohabitors: union trajectories to childlessness
Jalovaara, Marika; Fasang, Anette Eva - In: Demographic Research: a peer-reviewed, open-access … 36 (2017), pp. 1703-1720
high rates of separation and unmarried cohabitation. [Objective:] To situate (biological) childlessness in longitudinal … cohabitation near age 40; 2) Briefly Cohabited (25%), characterized by mostly living single after a brief cohabitation spell; 3 …) Cohabitors, Often Serial (19%), marked by typically discontinuous cohabitation; and 4) Married (11%). The Never-Partnered cluster …
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Pflegemarkt: Drohendem Arbeitskräftemangel kann entgegengewirkt werden
Schulz, Erika - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 51/52, pp. 3-17
Die demographisch bedingte Zunahme alter und sehr alter Personen, verbunden mit der deutlichen Verringerung der Personen im erwerbsfähigen Alter, stellt für den Bereich der Pflege eine große Herausforderung dar. Ein Großteil der Pflegebedürftigen wird zwar heute durch Familienangehörige zu...
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Public-sector outsourcing
Poutvaara, Panu - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually lower, but quality problems can affect services like health care and residential youth care. Consumer choice has stimulated innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous...
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation
Daysal, N. Meltem - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Health Policy 114 (2014) 1, pp. 41–53
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
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