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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 … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261013
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Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?
Calvo, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616686
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Better Health and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) from a global, regional and local economic perspective
Eberhard, Birgid; Fachinger, Uwe; Henke, Klaus-Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Assisting technologies aim to provide more support in the meeting of one's daily needs and the preservation of one's autonomy and quality of life. Continual developments in medicine, medical equipment, nursing and medical care are assumed to lead to new types of care being created. A high degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530710
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Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency
Amarender A, Reddy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Appropriate choice of cropping systems to local agro-ecology increases profitability and employment. The increased labour shortage and reduced profitability are growing concerns to the farmers. Keeping this, the paper written with the following objectives: i) To assess the profitability among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260091
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Factors of Economic Growth in Latvia
Krasnopjorovs, Olegs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Uneven economic growth during the recent years raise the question whether any factor of economic growth aside economic cycle fluctuations exists in Latvia. The objective of the Doctoral Thesis is, to assess the factors of economic growth in Latvia using econometric modelling techniques, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260871
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Funciones de producción, análisis de economías a escala y eficiencia técnica en el eje cafetero colombiano: una aproximación con frontera estocástica
Andres, Jorge; Calvo, Perdomo; Darrell Lee, Hueth; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article is an empirical study about flexible and conventional functional forms of coffee production, minflex Laurent Translog function econometrically has been established in Colombia coffee zone for the farm size (smallholders, medium and large farms, general sector), using a stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654209
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Wise exploitation – a game with a higher productivity than cooperation – transforms biological productivity into economic productivity.
Friedrich, T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
I suggest a new game called wise exploitation. It is characterized by a small investment of the exploiting party to either breed the exploited party or educate the exploited party not to detect exploitation. Thereby a higher productivity than cooperation or prisoners´ dilemma is achieved. The...
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Globalization and its Effects on Regional Variations in Factor Substitution and Returns to Scale in the Indian Factory Sector
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The issue of inequality or imbalance in sectional, sectoral or regional distribution of economic and social variables is connected to welfare implications of the functioning of an economy responsible for allocation of resources, and production, distribution and consumption of the material...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790330
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An extension to the neoclassical growth modelto Estimate Growth and Level Effects
Rao, B. Bhaskara; Singh, Rup; Nisha, Fozia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The neoclassical growth model was extended by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) to estimate the level effects of additional factors like human capital. We suggest a further extension to capture their permanent growth effects. Time series data from Fiji are used to show that the growth effect of...
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Neoclassical versus frontier production models? Testing for the skewness of regression residuals
Kuosmanen, Timo; Fosgerau, Mogens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The empirical literature on production and cost functions is divided into two strands: 1) the neoclassical approach that concentrates on model parameters, 2) the frontier approach that decomposes the disturbance term to a symmetric noise term and a positively skewed inefficiency term. We propose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560098