Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the … owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating environmental conditions. Supply of health care is overwhelmingly provided … problems, the government has launched a number of reforms. New insurance schemes have been rolled out both in rural and urban …

incentives for teachers. Performance of public services devoted to health and transports has been mixed. Public health services …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …

country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …

lag behind natives in terms of employment and/or wages. The differences narrow as years since settlement elapse …, especially as regards wages, reflecting progressive assimilation. Strong differences in immigrant-to-native gaps are also … to be overrepresented among outsiders in the labour market and, as such, highly sensitive to the difference in employment …

This paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for banking and insurance are related to … insurance sector. Despite incomplete information on some areas that turned out to be important in the context of the recent …-oriented regulatory policies and competition in banking and insurance.<P>Régulation prudentielle et concurrence sur les marchés financiers …

. Three channels of influence are explored in this paper: shrinking insurance coverage stemming from the perception of greater …

, the paper discusses possibilities for international insurance as well as shock-spreading and risk-mitigating policies …

This paper aims to shed light on the contribution of health care and other determinants to the health status of the … population and to provide evidence on whether or not health care resources are producing similar value for money across OECD … countries. First, it discusses the pros and cons of various indicators of the health status, concluding that mortality and …