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Rising Mortality Rate in Andhra Pradesh: Towards a demystification
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian State – Andhra Pradesh. Although the state’s performance in socio-economic sphere seems to be not that impressive, its performance in demographic transition during the last...
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Health care and social care: complements, substitutes and attributes
Wildman, John; McMeekin, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Ageing populations are a major challenge for most developed countries, where social security systems were developed in the post war period. It has been suggested that the costs of caring for the ageing population places a considerable strain on individuals, as well as on the public purse, and...
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey … information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …) increases female employment in a cross-country fashion. …
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Women Employment in The New Economy: Clouds and Some Sunshine
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
in terms of high growth and high share in total employment in recent times. It is observed that women employment is … the new economy a trade-off is observed between women employment expansion and their wage condition. There also exists an … established sector where women have traditionally been accepted and are having stable employment and wage condition. In few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836830
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CONCEPT AND CONTEXT OF NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
Panda, Bhagirathi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Globalization, liberalization, technological development, infrastructure development and WTO etc. are ‘contexts’, which have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in...
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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Sağlıkta Dönüşümün Ampirik Analizi
Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...
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Public health services and health care utilization in Viet Nam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The main objectives of this paper are to review policies on health services and to provide an assessment of public health facilities and the access of people to health care services in Vietnam. Medical facilities and staffs in public establishments have been increasing. Health insurance has been...
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Welfare costs of reclassification risk in the health insurance market
Pashchenko, Svetlana; Porapakkarm, Ponpoje - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the major problems of the U.S. health insurance market is that it leaves individuals exposed to reclassification risk. Reclassification risk arises because the health conditions of individuals evolve over time, while a typical health insurance contract only lasts for one year. A change in...
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Adverse selection and moral hazard among the poor: evidence from a randomized experiment
Spenkch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Not only does economic theory predict high-risk individuals to be more likely to purchase insurance, but insurance coverage is also thought to crowd out precautionary activities. In spite of stark theoretical predictions, there is conflicting empirical evidence on adverse selection, and evidence...
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