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Staff engagement, job complementarity and labour supply : evidence from the English NHS hospital workforce
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Mello, Marco - 2022
We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector, where excessive turnover of the clinical staff (doctors and nurses) can be detrimental for quality of care. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset constructed by combining...
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Re-examining supplier-induced demand in health care: comparisons among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
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Information provision and streamlined medical service : evidence from a mobile appointment app
Song, Changcheng; Yang, Nan; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye - 2018
We examine the launch of a mobile outpatient appointment app in China to study the effect of information provision and a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a...
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How do low-income enrollees in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces respond to cost-sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019
The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130268
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Healthcare quality and dementia risk
Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca R. - 2024
Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...
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Minimum wages in sub-Saharan Africa : a primer
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2015
by country, but also by the variations in compliance. We find that higher Kaitz indices are associated with higher levels … of non-compliance. The release of country-level earnings and employment data at regular intervals lies at the heart of a …
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Minimum wage violation in Central and Eastern Europe
Goraus-Tanska, Karolina; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2016
average wage ratios were associated with higher levels of non-compliance, this effect was present within countries over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518011
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Gimme shelter : social distancing and income support in times of pandemic
Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Bernard, Tanguy - 2021
Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using...
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Turning a "blind eye"? : compliance with minimum wage standards and employment
Garnero, Andrea; Lucifora, Claudio - 2021
Turning a "blind eye" to non-compliance with minimum wage standards is sometimes presented as a pragmatic way to … model firms' wage and employment decisions, and show that there may be a trade-off between non-compliance and employment … of a positive employment non-compliance effect, though elasticities are smaller than typically thought as employers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550128
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Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies : evidence from ten countries using Big Data
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Previous evidence indicates trust is an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However …, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does not change over time, and second, that … mobility or self-reported measures are good proxies for compliance. This study is the first to use a time-varying measure of …
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