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The paper is a conceptual note on Sex, Gender and Health. It also explains the relationship among them. Gender is different from Sex. “Sex" refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women. “Gender” refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors,...
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Over the last three decades, treating health economics as an independent scientific discipline and providing specific treatment to the topics related to the economics of the health care sector have become more and more common. Currently, the field is so well established that it has appeared in...
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Biologically determined sex and socially constructed gender have strong bearing on the household out-of-pocket health expenditure. In this connection, the present makes an modest attempt to study the gender inequalities in household health expenditure in urban Orissa. The study shows that there...
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The study examines the effect of income and education of the household on its health expenditure, based on primary data collected from Jajpur district of Orissa. Multi-stage random sampling method is adopted to select households (HHs), i.e., sampling unit. The descriptive statistics shows that...
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This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...
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This paper investigates the impact of training and education on productivity, in particular linking to a literature that emphasizes the need to reorganise production following adoption of ICT. The paper examines training at the total economy level and variation across industries, focusing...
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This paper presents new data series designed to yield a more complete picture of the growth in average skill levels embedded in the EU workforce, comparing with competitor countries such as the US and China. Harmonised data from EU surveys are employed to extend coverage in existing databases to...
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This paper examines the effect of shifts in the relative supply and demand of skills on the skill premiums and wage …
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This paper examines effects of the formation of physical and human capital on the growth of labour productivity, Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and wages in China, incorporating the market reform factors such as ownership shifts, population policy, openness and fiscal expenditures on education....
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This paper aims to investigate the cyclical changes in the wage structure of the United Kingdom over the period 1972 …-2002 using the General Household Survey (GHS). Wage structure of the UK shows a cyclical pattern, which may be from the different … wage cyclicality of the top, middle and bottom percentile groups. Higher educated male workers have experienced a faster …
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