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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …
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Labor and financial market interactions : the case of labor income risk and car insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …
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The determinants of efficiency and productivity in the Swiss insurance industry
Biener, Christian; Eling, Martin; Wirfs, Jan Hendrik - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 248 (2016) 2, pp. 703-714
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Under pressure : how the business environment affects productivity and efficiency of European life insurance companies
Eling, Martin; Schaper, Philipp - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 258 (2017) 3, pp. 1082-1094
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Do financial incentives influence GPs' decisions to do after-hours work? : a discrete choice labour supply model
Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Li, Jinhu; Scott, Anthony - 2016
This paper analyses doctors' supply of after-hours care, and how it is affected by personal and family circumstances as well as the earnings structure. We use detailed survey data from a large sample of Australian General Practitioners to estimate a structural, discrete-choice model of labour...
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Do you have to win it to fix it? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand
Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2015
more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …
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Staff engagement, job complementarity and labour supply : evidence from the English NHS hospital workforce
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Mello, Marco - 2022
We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector, where excessive turnover of the clinical staff (doctors and nurses) can be detrimental for quality of care. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset constructed by combining...
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Staff engagement, coworkers' complementarity and employee retention : evidence from English NHS hospitals
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Mello, Marco - 2022
Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive turnover of doctors and nurses can reduce the quality and quantity of services to patients. In the public sector, where salaries are often not negotiable at individual level, workers...
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Non-monetary interventions, workforce retention and hospital quality : evidence from the English NHS
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Blanden, Jo; Mello, Marco - 2023
Excessive turnover can signicantly impair an organization's performance. Using high-quality administrative data and staggered dierence-in-dierences strategies, we evaluate the impact of a programme that encouraged public hospitals to increase staff retention by providing data and guidelines on...
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The effects of the Dobbs decision on fertility
Dench, Daniel; Pineda-Torres, Mayra; Myers, Caitlin K. - 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization sparked the most profound …
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