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 …

unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the … large effect on the duration of joblessness of both low-wage and high-wage UI recipients in Austria. …

Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison … regression. In effect, we merge duration analysis and discontinuity analysis. We use the introduction of the NDYP program for …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of benefit generosity on claim duration and temporary benefits paid among …-percent increase in benefit generosity leads to a 2- to 4-percent increase in injury duration. We derive similar duration …

effects of UI benefit duration in the form of across-border work patterns that are consistent with increased tightness in high …