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Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service
Beckert, Walter; Kelly, Elaine - 2017
A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents. However, there remains a concern that not all consumers are able to benefit equally from wider choice. We consider the case of publicly...
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Choice in the presence of experts: The role of general practitioners in patients' hospital choice
Beckert, Walter; Collyer, Kate - 2016
This paper considers the micro-econometric analysis of patients' hospital choice for elective medical procedures when their choice set is pre-selected by a general practitioner (GP). It proposes a two-stage choice model that encompasses both, patient and GP level optimization, and it discusses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786835
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Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss
Audoly, Richard; De Pace, Federica; Fella, Giulio - 2022
High-tenure workers who lose their jobs experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this paper is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and...
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Breaking the cycle? The effect of education on welfare receipt among children of welfare recipients
Coelli, Michael B.; Green, David Alan; Warburton, William P. - 2004
We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare backgrounds use welfare … their own and their parents' welfare records. We address potential endogeneity problems by: 1) controlling for ability using …- Singer type unobserved heterogeneity estimator. Graduation would reduce welfare receipt of dropoutsby Ý to 3/4. Effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293018
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Optimal tax progressivity: An analytical framework
Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - 2014
-offs. The analytical expressions we derive for social welfare deliver a transparent understanding of how preferences, technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335616
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The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term: An evaluation of In Work Credit
Brewer, Mike; Browne, James; Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, … - 2011
previous receipt of welfare, and, perhaps, not means-tested. Such a design is cheaper, and perhaps better targeted, but … piloted in around one third of the country. It finds that the policy did increase flows off welfare and into work, and that … of the impact arose by speeding up welfare off-flows: the job retention of programme recipients was good, but this cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331054
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Negative marginal tax rates and heterogeneity
Choné, Philippe; Laroque, Guy - 2009
Heterogeneity is likely to be an important determinant of the shape of optimal tax schemes. This article addresses the issue in a model à la Mirrlees with a continuum of agents. The agents differ in their productivities and opportunity costs of work, but their labor supplies depend only on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275730
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Optimal taxation in the extensive model
Choné, Philippe; Laroque, Guy - 2008
We study optimal taxation in the general extensive model: the only decision of the participants in the economy is to choose between working (full time) or staying inactive. People differ in their productivities and in other features which determine their work opportunity costs. The qualitative...
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Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers
Goll, David; Joyce, Robert; Waters, Tom - 2023
incomes, including among poorer households, and to raise welfare. Our results suggest that in-work transfers could be refined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480501
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The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term: an evaluation of In Work Credit
Brewer, Mike; Browne, James; Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, … - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2011
previous receipt of welfare, and, perhaps, not means-tested. Such a design is cheaper, and perhaps better targeted, but … piloted in around one third of the country. It finds that the policy did increase flows off welfare and into work, and that … of the impact arose by speeding up welfare off-flows: the job retention of programme recipients was good, but this cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209867