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The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Recent work emphasizes a two-sided asymmetric information relationship between physician and patient. In contrast to most work looking only at the physician’s perspective, our paper concentrates on the patient’s view. Estimation results support the hypotheses that physician consultation and health ...
In:
International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
8 (2008), 4, 279-300
| Udo Schneider, Volker Ulrich
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This paper explores the effects of insurance parameters and complementary information environment on the patient's primary prevention activity. The theoretical model is based on a principal-agent setting in which the patient acts as an agent in deciding about his prevention efforts. The insurer chooses the coverage level and therefore the level of patient's cost sharing and decides on his ...
In:
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES)
147 (2011), 1, 71-106
| Udo Schneider, Jürgen Zehrt
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The recently published data from the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) has revealed that Germany ranks lowest among the OECD countries for educational equalities. This paper examines whether it is the tracking of children into different types of school environments at a particularly early stage of their intellectual development, i.e. at the transition from primary to secondary school, ...
Florence:
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre,
2002,
(Innocenti Working Paper No. 92)
| Sylke Viola Schnepf
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Contributing to a growing literature on sibling correlations, this paper is the first to present results for Germany. On the basis of data from the GSOEP, around one third of the variance or inequality in permanent earnings for men and around one fourth for women can be attributed to family characteristics during childhood. This indicates a slightly lower influence of family on women’s outcomes. The ...
Philadelphia:
2010,
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Around 37 percent of those in paid full-time employment in Germany did not claim their full vacation entitlement last year. The number of vacation days actually taken by each employee was on average three days less than the full entitlement. This equates to around twelve percent of the overall volume of vacation entitlement not being used. This figure is corroborated by data from the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
2 (2012), 2, 25-31
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2001,
(Discussion Paper No. 244)
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the "5th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users", ed. by Holst, Elke; Hunt, Jennifer and Schupp, Jürgen)
123 (2003), 1, 109-124
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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2004,
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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Many validation studies deal with item nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this article, the author explores respondents’ motives for failing to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The SOEP collects socioeconomic information from private households in the Federal Republic of Germany. The author explains the evolution of income nonresponse in the SOEP and ...
In:
Sociological Methods & Research
33 (2004), 1, 118-156
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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Many validation studies deal with item nonresponse and measurement error in earning data. In this paper, we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the British Household Panel Study (BHPS). The BHPS collects socio-economic information of private households in Great Britain. We explain the evolution of income-nonresponse in the BHPS and demonstrate the importance of ...
In:
Quality & Quantity
40 (2006), 6, 1013-1036
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler