This article presents new evidence on income-related health inequality and its development over time in Switzerland. We employ the methods lined out in Van Doorslaer and Jones (2003, "Inequalities in self-reported health: validation of a new approach to measurement", Journal of Health Economics <EM...</em>

Assessment of the benefits is one of the major and largely unresolved problems in the economic evaluation of new drugs, particularly so when major benefits concern patient's well-being, joy of life or life quality rather than increased longevity or improved earnings capacity. In this study, a...

The impact of smoking on medical care expenditure is analyzed, challenging the widespread belief that smoking imposes a large cost burden on health services systems. The results imply that lifetime expenditure is higher for nonsmokers than for smokers because smokers' higher annual utilization...

Abstract: In dieser Studie werden das holländische und das schweizerische Gesundheitssystem detailliert beschrieben und miteinander verglichen. Gemeinsam ist ihnen, dass sie sich im Versicherungsmarkt auf den regulierten Wettbewerb abstützen. Herausgearbeitet werden insbesondere die Elemente...

Seit 1975 verfolgt die Gesundheitspolitik primär das Ziel der Kostendämpfung und wendet hierzu in starkem Maße zentralistische, dirigistische und bürokratische Maßnahmen an. Auch die derzeitigen Gesetzentwürfe enthalten wiederum zahlreiche Schritte in diese Richtung. Aus ökonomischer...

Subsidized employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data, we investigate the effects of two different schemes of subsidized temporary employment implemented...

We evaluate the effect of the size of deductibles in the basic health insurance in Switzerland on the probability of a doctor visit. We employ nonparametric bounding techniques to minimise statistical assumptions. In order to tighten the bounds we consider two further assumptions: mean...