Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in … addition to own practice, work in local emergency centres, where the matching of patients to GPs is random. This allows us to …

are young (less than physicians), but there is also a weak tendency of higher mobility again when they are approaching … physicians). These low elasticities shadow for stronger responses, shifting labor away from part time jobs in the public and … physicians the impact is stronger …

A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The … model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of … cut moves married physicians towards full time job packages, in particular to full time jobs in the private sector. But …

) highly educated individuals utilized centralized specialized treatment to a greater extent than less educated patients and ii …) the use of such treatment improved these patients' survival …