How do patient and provider incentives affect mode and cost of long-term care? Our analysis of 1 million nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...

Die vorliegende Arbeit skizziert den komplexen Prozeß der Präferenzbildung für stationäre Altenpflege und ihrer Inanspruchnahme. Unter Berücksichtigung des sozio-demographischen Problemdrucks sowie durch Rekurs auf ein ganzheitliches Pflegebedarfskonzept wird insbesondere der Frage der...

Die vorliegende Studie untersuchte individuelle und gesellschaftliche Einflussfaktoren auf Erwerbsminderungsrenten in der stationären Pflege. Bei der empirischen Datenanalyse zeigte sich, dass gut qualifizierte Pflegekräfte ein deutlich höheres Risiko der Frühberentung tragen als...

This thesis contains three essays on topics from the field of Applied Health Economics. Two major subdivisions of the health care system, the health- and nursing care market, were closer investigated. In particular, the effect of public reporting on nursing home quality in Germany was analyzed....

Um dem steigenden Pflegebedarf gerecht werden zu können, bedarf es unter anderem eines Ausbaus der Pflegeinfrastruktur. Neue Nachweispflichten für die Betreiber von Pflegeeinrichtungen drohen aber die Investitionsbedingungen zu verschlechtern. Leidtragende wären Pflegebedürftige und...

The focus of this work is care and compassion within the context of organization and management studies. The text aims to understand how members of an English hospice identify or fail to identify with an organization where issues of life and death take centre stage and explores problems it faces...

"The introduction of a minimum wage in the care sector in August 2010 was the first time that a minimum wage was introduced in a health sector. Furthermore, in contrast to other industries with minimum wages, the care sector has continually increased in recent years. Our results show that...

This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....