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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262486
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The problem of the uninsured
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - 2012
The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290005
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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287681
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762378
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New evidence on the role of remittances on health care expenditures by Mexican households
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2009
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269518
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A labor market approach to the crisis of health care professionals in Africa
Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - 2011
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a distributional challenge, a performance challenge, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274635
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College majors and the knowledge content of jobs
Freeman, James A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2007
knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268176
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Discounting financial literacy: time preferences and participation in financial education programs
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2008
Many policy makers and economists argue that financial literacy is key to financial well-being. But why do many individuals remain financially illiterate despite the apparent importance of being financially informed? This paper presents results of a field study linking individual decisions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276778
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Heterogeneity, state dependence and health
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2008
We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Estimation indicates that there is a large degree of heterogeneity. For half the population, there are modest degrees of state dependence. For the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268844
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On the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269651