The male–female gap in physician earnings: evidence from a public health insurance system

Theurl, Engelbert; Winner, Hannes

doi:10.1002/hec.1663

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“…In this paper, unlike the previous literature which has examined gender differences in income (Bashaw and Heywood, 2001;McNabb and Wass, 2006;Theurl and Winner, 2010;Wood et al, 1993), we test for and correct potential endogeneity bias using two stage least squares (2SLS) rather than OLS.…”

Section: Endogeneity Of Hoursmentioning

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“…In medicine marked gender differences in income and hourly pay are reported in many countries (Robinson, 1998;Gupta et al, 2003;Theurl and Winner, 2010).…”

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“…Shih and Konrad (2007) report that in 1996/1997 male primary care physicians had log incomes 23% higher and log wages 14% higher than female primary care physicans after controlling for a large range of factors. The only non-US study reports a 32% pro-male total difference in log income and a 15% unexplained difference for Austrian physicians in 2002-2004 in a public insurance system in which fees are controlled by the insurance fund (Theurl and Winner, 2010).…”

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Section: Endogeneity Of Hoursmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In medicine marked gender differences in income and hourly pay are reported in many countries (Robinson, 1998;Gupta et al, 2003;Theurl and Winner, 2010).…”

Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 98%

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Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors

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“…1 Wide gaps of 15%, 24%, and 30% have also been reported in Austria (Theurl and Winner, 2011), Australia (Cheng et al, 2011), andEngland (Gravelle et al, 2011), respectively.…”

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One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors

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“…The share of lump-sum payments to total physician earnings varies widely over different fields of specialization. At an aggregate level, it amounts to about 68 percent for CGPs and around 34 percent for CSPs [37]. The fee-for-service component of remuneration includes earning caps, inducing decreasing marginal revenues per patient and treatment.…”

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Physician density in a two-tiered health care system

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We investigate the density of non-contract (private) physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public and private health care providers. In particular, we analyze how the densities of private and public suppliers of outpatient health care (general practitioners and specialists) are related to each other. Using a panel of 121 Austrian districts between 2002 and 2008, we apply a Hausman–Taylor estimator, which allows to treat each of these densities as endogenous. We find that the density of non-contract specialists is positively associated with the density of non-contract general practitioners, but not significantly related to the density of contract general practitioners. We also observe a negative relationship between the densities of non-contract and contract general practitioners and the ones of non-contract and contract specialists, indicating competitive forces between the private and the public sector of the outpatient health care provision in Austria. Our results contribute to the ongoing debate on the role of non-contract physicians for health care provision in Austria.

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The male–female gap in physician earnings: evidence from a public health insurance system

Cited by 28 publications

References 42 publications

Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors

Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors

One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors

Physician density in a two-tiered health care system

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