Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 763
Cover Image
Why Do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
Remler, Dahlia - 2009
researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159527
Cover Image
Do Income Contingent Student Loan Programs Distort Earnings? Evidence from the UK
Britton, Jack - 2019
Government backed income contingent student loans are an increasingly being used to fund higher education. An income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870729
Cover Image
Education, Segregation and Marital Sorting : Theory and an Application to UK Data
Fernández, Raquel - 2021
This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313642
Cover Image
The Effect of Shift Structure on Performance : The Role of Fatigue for Paramedics
Brachet, Tanguy - 2010
The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137615
Cover Image
A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment
Baernighausen, Till - 2009
Despite recent international efforts to increase antiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage, it is estimated that more than 5 million people who need ART in developing countries do not receive such treatment. Shortages of human resources to treat HIV/AIDS (HRHA) are one of the main constraints to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154564
Cover Image
Entry, Exit, and the Determinants of Market Structure
Dunne, Timothy - 2009
Market structure is determined by the entry and exit decisions of individual producers. These decisions are driven by expectations of future profits which, in turn, depend on the nature of competition within the market. In this paper we estimate a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156542
Cover Image
Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce
Bärnighausen, Till - 2009
Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157514
Cover Image
The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices
Niederle, Muriel - 2007
New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a quot;matchquot;) from 1986 through the late 1990's, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match, by observing the differences in the outcomes and organization of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775738
Cover Image
Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts
Niederle, Muriel - 2010
A recent antitrust lawsuit against the National Residency Matching Program renewed interest in understanding the effects of a centralized match on wages of medical residents. Bulow and Levin (forthcoming) propose a simple model of the NRMP, in which firms set impersonal salaries simultaneously,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761269
Cover Image
Relaxing Occupational Licensing Requirements : Analyzing Wages and Prices for a Medical Service
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2014
Occupational licensing laws have been relaxed in a large number of U.S. states to give nurse practitioners the ability to perform more tasks without the supervision of medical doctors. We investigate how these regulations may affect wages, employment, costs, and quality of providing certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058260