The effects of private versus public health insurance on health and labor market outcomes

Christine Dauth
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Christine Dauth: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 202103, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: Among health care systems with both public and private elements (such as in the US and Germany), an important question is whether the type of health insurance exerts an impact on workers’ careers. We exploit the unique German case of a two-tier health care system to analyze whether opting out of public statutory health insurance and into private health insurance affects the specific health and employment outcomes of employed workers over a period of nine years. We exploit administrative registers and apply a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We do not find any evidence that the type of health insurance affects employed workers’ outcomes in the medium or long run. This suggests that even though private health insurance entails more comfortable healthcare conditions, public health insurance does not come with heavy health impairments or detrimental employment outcomes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Auswirkungen; Berufserfolg; Berufsverlauf; Fehlzeiten; gesetzliche Krankenversicherung; Gesundheitszustand; IAB-Beschäftigtenhistorik; Krankheit; medizinische Versorgung; private Krankenversicherung; Qualität; 2000-2017 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 J21 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2021-03-30
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hea, nep-ias and nep-lma
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