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Positively aware? : conflicting expert reviews and demand for medical treatment
Balat, Jorge F.; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Qayyum, Shaiza - 2017
. We find that when doctors and activists agree, more positive reviews increase demand for HIV drugs. However, doctors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709785
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The determinants of performance appraisal systems : a note (do Brown and Heywood's results for Australia hold up for Britain?)
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between our two datasets - the AWIRS and the WERS - we reach one central point of agreement and one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561630
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Tenure, wage profiles and monitoring
Sessions, John G. (contributor);  … - 2008
We investigate the relationship between the slope of the wage-tenure profile and the level of monitoring across two cross sections of matched employer-employee British data. Our theoretical model predicts that increased monitoring leads to a decline in the slope of the wage-tenure profile. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652687
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The gender pay gap in UK medicine
Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi - 2021
In this study we quantify the size and drivers of the contemporary gender pay gap among medical doctors employed in the … comparisons to doctors employed in the private sector, as well as to other public sector medical professionals. We find that the … substantial 20 per cent hourly gender pay gap among public sector doctors is far larger than in either of these comparator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486374
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Overseas GPs and prescription behaviour in England
Nicodemo, Catia; Orso, Cristina Elisa; Tealdi, Cristina - 2023
The UK imports many doctors from abroad, where medical training and experience might be different. This study attempts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500558
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Work pay, contractual changes and employee attrition : evidence from NHS trainee doctors
Mello, Marco; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Laliotis, Ioannis; … - 2024
hospital care. We study how contractual pay terms affect the retention of trainee doctors in the English NHS and the … relationship between trainee doctors' attrition and hospital quality. Our setting is a nationwide reform that reduced unsocial … implementation of the new pay terms led to a 6.7% increase in the annual number of trainee doctors leaving the English NHS. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075384
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The impact of the recent expansion of the EU on the UK labour market
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2008
We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755936
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On the measurement of polarisation : a questionnaire study
Amiel, Yoram (contributor); Cowell, Frank A. (contributor);  … - 2007
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out using a questionnaire-experimental approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540203
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Students' academic self-perception
Chevalier, Arnaud; Gibbons, Steve; Thorpe, Andy; Snell, … - 2007
performance ; self-assessment ; higher education participation ; academic self-perception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003566273
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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239263