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This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...
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partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
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Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying both a structural discrete choice and a reduced-form approach. Using detailed survey data for...
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This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the … are considered. The insurance contract specifies two types of copayments: an ad valorem coinsurance rate and a specific …
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We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with …
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Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research …
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While economic studies often assume that labor markets are in equilibrium, there may be specialized labor markets that are likely in disequilibrium. We develop a new methodology to improve the estimation of a reduced form disequilibrium model from the existing models by incorporating...
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Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor behaviour in this unusual market. Participants have lower risk tolerance and higher patience levels than the Iranian average but display no difference in rationality from...
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the health status is determined while curative care is chosen ex post. Insurance benefits depend on preventive and … health status is ex post publicly observable, insurance benefits are flat (lump sum payments) and do not depend on … some probability individuals are healthy and do not need any therapeutic health care. Otherwise they become ill and the …
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This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are more likely than other owners to invest in productivity...
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