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Check up before you check out: Retail clinics and emergency room use
Alexander, Diane; Currie, Janet M.; Schnell, Molly - 2017
Retail clinics are an innovation that has the potential to improve competition in health care markets. We use the universe of emergency room (ER) visits in New Jersey from 2006-2014 to examine the impact of retail clinics on ER usage. We find significant effects of retail clinics on ER visits...
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Use of and attitudes towards new technologies of persons 50+ in Austria
Halmdienst, Nicole; Radhuber, Michael - 2016
A dynamic new field for health related technologies has emerged over the past decade. Many innovations aim at assisting elderly persons in monitoring and managing their personal health status. Other technologies support these persons in their activities of daily life, and make them feel safe and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615048
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Does Privatized Health Insurance Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage
Cabral, Marika; Geruso, Michael; Mahoney, Neale - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342526
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International Trends in the Quantity and Quality of Entrants to Computer Science Courses in Higher Education
Bruniaux, Christine; Hansen, Kirstine; Steedman, Hilary; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 4, pp. 527-543
Ein klarer Fachkräftemangel behindert das Wachstum der Informationstechnik (IT)-Branche nicht nur in Deutschland … Informatik in fünf industrialisierten Ländern, den USA, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Singapur und Deutschland, auf die steigende … Deutschland war ein starker Anstieg an Studienanfängern seit 1995 in diesem Fach zu verzeichnen. In den USA zeigt sich dagegen ein …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377486
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The "IT Productivity Paradox" Revisited: International Comparisons of Information Technology, Work Organisation and Productivity in Service Industries
Mason, Geoff; Wagner, Karin; Finegold, David; Keltner, Brent - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 4, pp. 618-629
Obwohl gegenwärtig viele Autoren das "Produktivitätsparadox der Informationstechnik" als ein Thema ansehen, das …, zumindest in den USA, auf der Firmenebene gelöst wurde, bleiben noch einige Unklarheiten auf den Ebenen von Branchen- und … Volkswirtschaft bestehen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Investitionen in Informationstechnik und relativer …
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What happened to the knowledge economy? ICT, intangible investment and Britain's productivity record revisited
Marrano, Mauro Giorgio; Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2007
A major puzzle is that despite the apparent importance of innovation around the knowledge economy, UK macro performance appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues might account for the puzzle. The standard National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284188
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Information and communications technologies, coordination and control, and the distribution of income
Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007
We consider the links between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the distribution of income, as mediated by problems of coordination and control within organizations. In the large corporations of the mid-twentieth century, a highly developed division of labor was coordinated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287798
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Durable Purchases over the Later Life Cycle
Browning, Martin; Crossley, Thomas; Lührmann, Melanie - 2012
We investigate the life cycle patterns of households’spending on medium value durables. We use panel data on expenditures on appliances and consumer electronics the British Household Panel Study between 1997 and 2008. In cross section, expenditures for appliances and consumer electronics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500214
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International evidence on sticky consumption growth
Carroll, Christopher D.; Slacalek, Jiri; Sommer, Martin - 2008
We estimate the degree of 'stickiness' in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a stickiness...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy
Anderson, Soren T.; Kellogg, Ryan; Langer, Ashley; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342520