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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 …
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Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative features. First, it utilizes a novel "double proof" approach of addressing the reverse causality that tracks only healthy individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that...
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The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years' schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we...
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This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...
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reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for … econometric framework was found to influence the magnitude of the key elasticities: namely the elasticity of unemployment duration … with respect to the reservation wage and the elasticity of the reservation wage with respect to unemployment duration …
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We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of … online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design identifies duration elasticities by leveraging firm-level wage …-defined, firm-level changes. In our preferred specifications, we estimate duration elasticities in the range −3 to −5, which are …
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In England as elsewhere, policy makers are trying to reduce the pressure on costs due to rising hospital admissions by … encouraging GPs to refer fewer patients to hospital specialists. This could have an impact on elective treatment levels … data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) in England we estimate dynamic fixed effects panel data models for emergency …
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coworkers, in affecting employee retention within the public hospital sector. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset based …
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decreased exits from the public hospital sector. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management … behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages …
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-term physical health conditions (LTCs) and this co-occurrence is associated with higher hospital utilisation. Psychological … Therapies (IAPT) programme in England on hospital utilisation 12-months after the end of IAPT treatment. We examined three types … of hospital utilisation: Inpatient treatment, Outpatient treatment and Emergency room attendance. We examined individuals …
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