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Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality : The Key Role of Innovative Procedures
Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096122
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Competition and Hospital Quality : Evidence from a French Natural Experiment
Gobillon, Laurent - 2017
We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … and financial autonomy as well as their reimbursement systems and incentives for competition before the reform, but they … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965016
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The 'Gravity' of Quality : Research Quality and Universities' Attractiveness in Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2017
This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003–2011 are regressed on several universities' research quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946600
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Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes
Dube, Arindrajit - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051798
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The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Heywood, John S. - 2013
This field experiment examines output quantity and quality for workers in a data input business. We observe two sets of workers that differ in monitoring intensity as they move from time to piece rates. The application of piece rates increases quantity, and we find that the resultant quality can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074166
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765301
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Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Vu, Nam - 2021
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250249
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Incidence of Strict Quality Standards : Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?
Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2013
This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor-market equilibriums when both markets are regulated. The Japanese government revised the Building Standards Act in June 2007, requiring a stricter review process for admitting the plans of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080137
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime : An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2021
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316923
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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries - the quality-upgrading mechanism - and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants. In a model with heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316928