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The Economic Cost of the U.S. Health Care System

Adari, Johnson - EconWPA - 2005

The economic cost of the U.S. health care system goes beyond the cost of prescription drugs, doctor office visits and surgical procedures/ medical image tests. The implicit part of the cost includes the global competitiveness that the U.S. loses being an industrialized economy. The high health...

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Family Health Benefits and Worker Turnover

Black, Dan A. - EconWPA - 1996

In this paper, I examine the impact of employer-provided health benefits on job turnover. Because many employer-provided plans extend coverage to a worker's entire family, the value of an employer's employment offer to a worker depends on whether the worker's spouse provides the family with...

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Self-Employed Contractors in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics

Waite, Matthew; Will, Lou - EconWPA - 2001

This paper presents an analysis of self-employed contracting in Australia. The analysis covers all self-employed contractors, including dependent and independent contractors. The paper finds that self- employed contractors have become more common in Australia over the past 20 years. In August...

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Replicating Microfinance in the United States: Opportunities and Challenges

Schreiner, Mark; Morduch, Jonathan - EconWPA - 2001

In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance in the United States? This paper attempts to...

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Bank loans, start-up subsidies and the survival of the new firms: an econometric analysis at the entrepreneur level

Bruno, CREPON; Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...

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'Knowledge-preneurs': Self-employment in the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services Industry

Carson, Jamie - EconWPA - 2005

Amid the dynamics of the labour market in the 1990's, two growth areas stand out: self-employment (when analyzed by class of worker) and knowledge industries (when analyzed by sector). In this paper, we combine these two perspectives to explore self-employment in the Professional, Scientific and...

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Globalisation and Human Development

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented debate on globalisation. Attention has focused on the origin and main features of globalisation and its potential impact on world economic, political and social order. This research and policy debate is understandable, as the pace and consequences of...

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The Employment and Social Consequences of Vietnam's International Economic Integration

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

the game" (or new rules) by which economic activity is conducted. In the context of vietnam, "restructuring" is generally … reforms. This paper examines labour issues in restructuring Vietnam's state sector, the social protection system and options …

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Vietnam's Labour Market in Transition

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

This report examines the employment structure and structural change (1986-1999) of Vietnam, discusses Vietnam's labour … market regulations and examines how Vietnam's labour markets could become more efficient. Vietnam’s labour policies remain … effective. State enterprise restructuring will create unemployment, but the numbers will be small in relation to Vietnam’s total …

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Instrument Choice and the Returns to Education: New Evidence from Vietnam

Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice; Gyselinck, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

This paper focuses on instrument choice while consistently estimating the returns to education in Vietnam. Using data … culled from the 2 rounds of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS), we explore different sets of exogenous instruments …

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