absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …

"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in …