Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...

Der Beitrag behandelt das Thema „Honoraraerzte“ nicht, wie bisher ueblich, aus aerztlicher Sicht, sondern erstmals in der Perspektive von Beschaeftigungsbeziehungen, insbesondere atypischer Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnisse (vor allem Befristung, Leiharbeit und Solo-Selbststaendigkeit). Nach der...

This report is an overview to the presentations and discussions in the seminar Survival or performance? Healthcare viewed through organization, information management, and personnel held on 3.9.2012. The seminar provided an interdisciplinary forum for the question how the health care system may...

Do physicians respond to financial incentives? We address this question by analyzing the prescription behavior of physicians who are allowed to dispense drugs themselves through onsite pharmacies. Using administrative data comprising over 16 million drug prescriptions between 2008 and 2012 in...

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine whether these superior features of private insurance...

We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. We characterize the individual optimum and the general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact of improvements in the effectiveness of health care. We find that general equilibrium...

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine whether these superior features of private insurance...

Der Zuzug von Migranten nach Deutschland verlangsamt zwar die Bevölkerungsalterung, aber gleichzeitig wächst die Bevölkerungsgruppe der Migranten, die derzeit und in naher Zukunft in das Rentenalter eintritt. Um Aussagen über die zukünftig benötigten Versorgungsstrukturen treffen zu...