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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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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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Governance Institutions and Incentive Structures in Vietnam

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

paper then surveys the particular governance challenge in Vietnam as it continues its transition from central planning to … markets. The nature and characteristics of the present administrative structure in Vietnam are then surveyed, followed by a …

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Report and Statistical Abstract of UNIDO/DSI Industrial Competitiveness Field Survey

McCarty, Adam; Fink, Sasha; Anh, Nguyen Le - EconWPA - 2001

generally low, but in a labour intensive country such as Vietnam could still be seen as an advantage. Employment levels were …

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Microfinance in Vietnam - A Survey of Schemes and Issues

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

This report follows up on a 1996 UNDP survey of microfinance activity in Vietnam. The need was not simply because of … benefit. This report had highlighted a number of problems concerning microfinance in Vietnam. These concerns, however, should … of “social capital” in Vietnam are ripe for the rapid expansion of microfinance schemes along the lines of those in …

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