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Health Expenditure Growth: Looking beyond the Average through Decomposition of the Full Distribution

Meijer, Claudine de; Koopmanschap, Marc; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

largest contribution of all determinants to increased spending not only on hospital care but also on pharmaceuticals … data on actual health expenditures linked to hospital discharge and mortality registers. Full distribution decomposition … delivers findings that would be overlooked by examination of changes in the mean alone. The growth in expenditures on hospital …

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Free Medicines thanks to Retirement: Moral Hazard and Hospitalization Offsets in an NHS

Puig-Junoy, Jaume; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Casado-Marin, David - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

consumption and hospital discharge records for the full population aged 58 to 65 in January 2004 covered by the public insurer in …

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A Theory of Education and Health

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur’s skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both generalists and specialists to possess skill variety....

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balancedskill profiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not havingtaken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impactsboth of risk aversion and balanced skills on...

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The Political Economy of Bank- and Market Dominance

Perotti, Enrico; Thadden, Ernst Ludwig von - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Legislation affects corporate governance and the return to human and financial capital. We allow the preference of a political majority to determine both the governance structure and the extent of labor rents. In a society where median voters have relatively more at stake in the form of human...

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Regional Inequality and Human Capital Quality: The Impact of Technology on the Arrival Rate of Employment Offers

Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a ‘search & matching’ framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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Cognitive Capital and Islands of Innovation: The Lucas Growth Model from a Regional Perspective

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper led to an article in Regional Studies (2014). Volume 48, issue 4, pages 624-645. Knowledge triggers regional growth. Evidence suggests that skilled labour force concentrates in islands of innovation, determining an advantage for innovative regions and a challenge for...

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Spatial Patterns of Technology Diffusion: An Empirical Analysis using TFP

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

In this paper we employ techniques developed in spatial econometrics to analyse spatial patterns of technology diffusion, to detect clusters and to estimate theoretical models that incorporate space explicitly. These techniques correct for misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial...

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