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Do hospitals respond to increasing prices by supplying fewer services?
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial interest. Classical models of supplier-induced demand predict that medical providers will supply fewer services if they face increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a...
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Hospital resources : persistent reallocation under price changes
Wozny, Florian - 2020
Changes in medical expenses may force hospitals to reallocate their resources, which potentially come at the detriment of healthcare quality. Using data on the universe of German hospitals, I investigate resource reallocations between capital stock, human resources, services and the...
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The impact of hospital closures on medical debt in collections : analysis using consumer credit bureau data
Andre, Jennifer; Blavin, Fredric E.; Braga, Breno; … - 2023
This study presents new evidence on the potential detrimental effects of hospital closures. We examine how hospital closures affect the likelihood of incurring medical debt. Hospital closures can increase market concentration by removing a competitor from the market. Closures can also have...
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Do non-monetary interventions improve staff retention? : evidence from English NHS hospitals
Sayli, Melisa; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Blanden, Jo; Bojke, Chris - 2022
Excessive turnover reduces the stock of an organization's human capital. In the public sector, where wage increases are often constrained, managers need to leverage non-monetary working conditions to retain their workers. We investigate whether workers are responsive to improvements in non-wage...
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The economics of hospital trips and health care reform
Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...
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Are rushed privatizations substandard? : analyzing firm-level privatization under fiscal pressure
Hagemejer, Jan; Švejnar, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018
, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from … Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …
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The effects of firm size on job quality : a comparative study for Britain and France
Bryson, Alex; Erhel, Christine; Salibekyan, Zinaida - 2017
-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France – countries with very different employment regimes. The … results show that job quality is better in Britain than it is in France, despite its minimalist regulatory regime. The … associated with non-pecuniary job quality in both countries but in France the association is confined to only the largest firms …
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Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution : evidence from France
Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - 2013
framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717737
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Dynamic monopsony : evidence from a French establishment panel
Fakhfakh, Fathi (contributor); FitzRoy, Felix R. (contributor) - 2005
This paper uses a panel of about 6000 French establishments to test some implications of the modern theory of dynamic monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much larger long run employer size - wage effect (ESWE) than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002853297
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France …
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