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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias - 2011

impatience are found to be significant predictors of health-related field behavior, saving decisions and conduct at school. In …

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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Battisti, Michele - 2019

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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Dynamic Hospital Competition Under Rationing by Waiting Times

Sá, Luís - 2019

We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that, whereas policies based on penalties will lead to lower...

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Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit patients who choose between neighbouring hospitals (competitive...

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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

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Trends of Children's Height and Parental Unemployment : A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006

Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2021

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

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Asset ownership and foreign-market entry

Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2006

This paper examines the link between a firm's ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry- and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through greenfield...

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Intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in OECD manufacturing: a spatial econometric perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …

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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

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Temporary employment, job flows and productivity: A tale of two reforms

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Leonardi, Marco - 2011

productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favour of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …

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