of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply …

state government spending, but no significant positive effect on state education, health, transportation or welfare … control for the state tax and expenditure limitations. We find that term limits have a significant positive effect on total …

The pay determining process of CEOs of UK higher education institutions is modelled using three econometric … is detected and this differential remains robust across the specifications reported and across higher education sub …-sectors. There is evidence that CEOs with industrial work experience and those who have been employed by a higher education body earn …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … part of the paper tackles the challenge of comparability of income-tax based estimates across countries and across time …. Controlling for country and year fixed effects, we find that a reduction in the marginal tax rate on wage income is associated …

empirical investigation into the quitting behaviour of nurses in the British National Health Service (NHS), using a newly … characteristics of those nurses who leave the NHS, distinguish the importance of pay in this decision and document the destinations … that nurses move to. Contrary to expectations, we find that the hourly wage received by nurses outside of the NHS is around …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers' health. In particular, we show …

on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer riskier but better paid careers than is … education. The equilibrium allocation is characterized by too much unemployment, underinvestment by the poor, and too little … investment in skill-intensive technologies. A public education system funded by graduate taxes can restore efficiency. More …

Canada?s restrictions on the role of private health insurance for publicly insured physician and hospital services are … unique among countries with universal, publicly funded health care systems. Pressure is mounting in Canada, however, to … reduce quality and access to publicly financed health care as those with the financial means (and often the strongest voice …

municipalities have lower real estate and income tax rates. Finally, we investigate the heterogeneity in policy responses across …

to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …