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A Demand-Oriented Approach to Health Care Capacity Planning
Wende, Danny; Kopetsch, Thomas; Richter, Wolfram F. - 2021
necessary for making reliable predictions of the demand and competition for supplied care. This paper presents a general … equilibrium model designed to overcome such shortcomings. The derived metric of access to care is demand-oriented measuring the …) method, which suffer from supply bias and ad hoc specification. The approach is illustrated using Germany as an example. Much …
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Is Inconsistent Reporting of Self-Assessed Health Persistent and Systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS
Davillas, Apostolos; de Oliveira, Victor Hugo; Jones, … - 2022
We capitalise on an opportunity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, which asks respondents the same SAH question with identical wording two times. This is done once with a self-completion and once with an open interview mode within the same household interview over four waves. We estimate...
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Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs
Krupka, Douglas James; Donaldson, Kwame - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
a lesser extent) wages. The importance of amenities is retained, but housing supply becomes the main other determinant … of regional rents. Housing supply was for the most part ignored in the literature following on Roback’s initial insight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233845
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Geographic Mobility over the Life-Cycle
Diaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023
When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young people in Spain, and these frictions are particularly...
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The Ins and Outs of Selling Houses: Understanding Housing-Market Volatility
Ngai, L. Rachel; Sheedy, Kevin D. - 2023
-and-matching model with endogenous inflows and outflows and shocks to housing demand matches many of the stable correlations and predicts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469857
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Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France
Verdugo, Gregory; Toma, Sorana - 2018
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of "ghettos" in large cities. Using French census data over three decades, we examine how this increase in public housing participation has...
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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...
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Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?
Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V. - 2018
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on …-share instrument. Results suggest that labor demand shocks have positive effects on housing prices. However, these effects appear to …
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Immigration and housing booms: evidence from Spain
González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across...
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Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices across German Districts
Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022
price bubbles are concentrated in the largest cities and in the purchasing market. Prices seem to be driven by the demand … explain our findings, while supply remained relatively constrained in the short term. …
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