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Intergovernmental health assistance in francophone West Africa
Berg, Elliot J. - 1981
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000007442
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Zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der ostdeutschen Landwirtschaft nach der EU-Osterweiterung
Rothe, Andrea; Lissitsa, Alexej - 2005
Den Schwerpunkt dieses Discussion Papers bildet eine Effizienzanalyse landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen Sachsen-Anhalts und Tschechiens. Mittels der Data Envelopment Analysis, einer nicht-parametrischen, auf linearer Programmierung basierenden Methode der Effizienzmessung, wurden die technischen,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299343
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Determinants of productivity and efficiency of wheat production in Kazakhstan: A stochastic frontier approach
Tleubayev, Alisher; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Götz, Linde; … - 2017
, however, there still is a large room for increasing productivity and efficiency to boost the agricultural potential of the … country further. The government of Kazakhstan has introduced several policy packages in the past to boost productivity and … found in terms of policy effect on productivity and efficiency. The results of the analysis showed that direct subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612527
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Türkiye’'de Sanayi Sektörü - Iktisadi Büyüme Ilişkisinin Kaldor Hipotezi Çerçevesinde Test Edilmesi
Arisoy, Ibrahim - 2008
a strong positive casual relationship between manufacturing productivity growth and output growth, due to static and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320573
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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or "informal" sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859639
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Macroeconomic Effects of Ownership Structure in OECD Countries
Gatti, Donatella - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
The paper investigates the impact of ownership concentration on GDP growth, for a sample of 18 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2004. The econometric analysis shows that more concentrated ownership can speed up growth, for countries approaching the technological frontier, provided that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860381
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The Theory of the Demand for Health Insurance
Nyman, John A. - 2001
Conventional theory holds that moral hazard - the additional health care purchased as a result of becoming insured - is … an opportunistic price response and is welfare-decreasing because the value of the additional health care purchased is … less than its costs. The theory of the demand for health insurance presented here suggests that moral hazard is primarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263363
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Games that Doctors PlayTwo-layered agency problems in a medical system
Behrens, Johann; Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006
Medical doctors act as agents of their patients by either treating them directly orreferring them to other more or differently specialized doctors, who therebybecome “agents of agents”. The main aim of this paper is to model centralaspects of such two-layered agency relations in the medical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866722
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Dissecting aid fragmentation: Development goals and levels of analysis
Carlitz, Ruth D.; Ziaja, Sebastian - 2021
Sierra Leone and Nigeria and find that the presence of more donors is associated with worse health outcomes, but better … Nigerian civil servants highlights potential mechanisms. Fragmentation in health aid may undermine civil servants' morale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518026
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859581