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We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …
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We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector …' retention of 0.16 and 0.2, respectively within the hospital and the NHS. Estimates of unconditional quantile regressions confirm …
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The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The literature lacks clear evidence on this issue and we conjecture that this may be due to empirical and methodological factors. We thus focus on a...
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the programme has decreased the nurse turnover rate by 4.49%, decreased exits from the public hospital sector by 5 ….38%, and reduced mortality within 30 days from hospital admission by 3.45%, preventing 11,400 deaths. Our results are …
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provision of hospital care. After the referendum, a sharp drop in the number of early-career new joiners from Europe resulted in … strategy, we find that emergency readmission rates increased, and more so in hospital organizations more exposed to the missing …
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Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such that each party seeks legal representation in the hope of exploiting the other party, while...
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This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...
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communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with …-characteristics significantly affect the average level of conflict. Both of those, however, significantly affect players' strategies, in the sense … of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …
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We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …
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States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...
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