This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for … regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial … proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes for a region based on outcomes …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

allowing for firm-specific trends. Because the change in wage regime coincides with substantial losses in the market share of …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …

social norms. We describe a model, incorporating institutional features of the German labour market, which explicitly allows … for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …