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This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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provincial vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after …
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This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …
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.K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to … similar to that in Britain and Japan. The contrast between the prewar data and the postwar data, where the U.S. is a definite … institutions than in the American case. In this comparison Britain is the odd-man-out, with well-publicized industrial strife …
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
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We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U …
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Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … relative to national account is examined. Coverage rates are highest in Canada and the UK. Over the past three decades coverage … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …
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; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Each of the three countries uses the Supply and Use framework (variant of Input Output … institutional sectors of the economy. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of … expenditures and net lending/borrowing across sectors. This allows Canada to track the statistical system which provides …
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pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …
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