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In this paper, we examine the demographic transition and its effect on economic growth using a cross-country data. We use a threshold regression model to verify the transition and to confirm whether the demographic transitions are compressed or not in developing countries. We found out that in...
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The publicly-managed Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) defined-benefit pension scheme in Vietnam is described, with an analysis of its financial sustainability in the context of an aging society in a dynamically efficient economy. By using actuarial models developed by the International Labor Organization...
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The demographic change that is lived worldwide, and of particular form in Europe, as consequence of the aging of the population because of the increase of the life expectancy and the drastic reduction of the rates of fertility, has made jump the alarms because of the need to get a suitable...
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Assisting technologies aim to provide more support in the meeting of one's daily needs and the preservation of one's autonomy and quality of life. Continual developments in medicine, medical equipment, nursing and medical care are assumed to lead to new types of care being created. A high degree...
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SaniRegio is an econometric model, based on fixed effects panel techniques, that investigates the level of efficiency of Italian Regions in governing their health care systems. As a result of the model, we obtain a measure of the efficient or standardized expenditure that may be compared to the...
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The paper is concerned with the efficient organization of contractual relationships between health insurers and providers. An introduction to relevant aspects of contract theory is followed by their adaptation to the characteristics of the health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante...
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Within the debate about the rise of costs in the German health system, the argument has put forth that patients' excessive demand for benefits is caused by the existence of a moral hazard problem. One way of influencing an insured person's consumer behaviour is the introduction of several...
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The paper investigates investment decisions by using a new source of data, that is the OBI annual survey on firms. The … main focus of our analysis mainly is the influence of credit market conditions on investment decisions and we find that the … main obstacle to the investment is the level of guarantees that bank demand to grant loans. This element was a constant …
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banks that are franchises of the ECB, (2) the secundary savings and loans banks, and (3) the tertiary investment banks. The …
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This article leaves the principle that the protectionist policy are favorable to the preservation of the stable rates of salary. These rates of salary will have for object to maintain the cost of migration of the populations of the protected sectors and thus to maintain constant the migratory...
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