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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the armed forces : health economic considerations

McCrone, Paul R.; Knapp, Martin; Cawkill, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper addresses the use of health economics in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Armed Forces, with a view to assessing the feasibility of carrying out future evaluative studies. Although psychological and pharmacological interventions can be used to treat PTSD, no...

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Issues in the incorporation of economic perspectives and evidence into Cochrane reviews

McDaid, David; Shemilt, Ian; Marsh, Kevin; Henderson, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Background: Methods for systematic reviews of the effects of health interventions have focused mainly on addressing the question of 'What works?' or 'Is this intervention effective in achieving one or more specific outcomes?' Addressing the question 'Is it worth it given the resources...

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Does competition solve the hold-up problem?

Felli, Leonardo; Roberts, Kevin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

particular, this paper shows that when matching is assortative and sellers’ investments precede market competition then …

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A test between unemployment theories using matching data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …

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On the extent of re-entitlement effects in unemployment compensation

Ortega, Javier; Rioux, Laurence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

A dynamic labor matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitled to unemployment insurance …

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Cities, matching and the productivity gains of agglomeration

Andersson, Fredrick; Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

the role of one of the main contenders - the matching of workers and jobs. Using individual level data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with more assortative matching between workers and firms … our data. Putting together the production and matching relationships, we show that production complementarity and …

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Imperfect competition in the labour market

Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the...

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Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor

Amiti, Mary; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

We show in the framework of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous and productivity depends on the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement...

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Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor

Amiti, Mary; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We show in the context of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter-regional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives local monopoly power to firms but also introduces variations in the quality of the job match....

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Scale effects in markets with search

Petrongolo, B; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Reduced- form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

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