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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …
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Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? Malaria control policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - 2012
malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
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Bidding for brains: Intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers
McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter - 2010
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
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Education and Cancer Risk
Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations …. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …
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Employment-contingent health insurance, illness, and labor supply of women: evidence from married women with breast cancer
Bradley, Cathy J.; Neumark, David; Luo, Zhehui; … - 2005
We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...
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Education and Cancer Risk
Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte - 2014
There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations …. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333292
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The Impact of Early Life Economic Conditions on Cause-Specific Mortality During Adulthood
Yeung, Gary Y.C.; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
first year of life appears to significantly increase all-cause mortality risks and cancer mortality risks of older males and … for cause-specific mortality. Our analyses show that cardiovascular and cancer mortality risks are related and that not …
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Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life: evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business c...
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - 2008
the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277321