variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …

effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated … were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for convalescent … health spa stays did not significantly reduce demand. …

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance … plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required …

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both … types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as … induce demand primarily among the privately insured. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effects of insurance status …

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both … types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as … induce demand primarily among the privately insured. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effects of insurance status …

Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit … moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection … into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new variables in the German Socioeconomic Panel for the years 2002 …

) labour market; (3) health; (4) personality, preferences, and subjective orientations; (5) subjective wellbeing; (6) political … selection of a minimum set of questions depends on the research question. In this paper, we offer general advice for the … selection of variables to researchers interested in comparing their own data with the SOEP. …