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Berlin, Heidelberg, New York u.a.:
Springer,
1997,
| Rainer Winkelmann
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The recent economic literature on the incidence of various forms of post-secondary on-the-job and off-the-job training in Germany and the United States, as well as on the effects of training on wages, inequality, and labor mobility is surveyed. Young workers in Germany receive substantially more company-based (apprenticeship) training than United States workers. In the United States, high turnover ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
(1997), 10, 159-170
| Rainer Winkelmann
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In:
Applied Economics Letters
(1999), 6, 337-341
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Berlin:
Springer,
2003,
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Zurich:
University of Zurich,
2003,
(Socioeconomic Institute Working Paper No. 0314)
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Zurich:
University of Zurich,
2003,
(Socioeconomic Institute Working Paper No. 0311)
| Rainer Winkelmann
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The German health care reform of 1997 provides a natural experiment for evaluating the price sensitivity of demand for physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However, certain groups of people were exempted from the increase, providing a natural control group against which the changed demand for physicians' services ...
In:
Health Economics
13 (2004), 11, 1081-1089
| Rainer Winkelmann
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This paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1995–1999. A number of modified count data models allow us to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts of the distribution. The overall effect of the reform was a 10% reduction in the number of doctor visits. ...
In:
Journal of Applied Econometrics
19 (2004), 4, 455-472
| Rainer Winkelmann
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The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that allows to identify the intra-family correlation in well-being. The parameters of the model can be estimated with panel data using Maximum Marginal Likelihood. The approach ...
In:
Empirical Economics
30 (2005), 3, 749-761
| Rainer Winkelmann
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In:
The Journal of Socio-Economics
(2006), 35, 197-208
| Rainer Winkelmann