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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...
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Does Privatized Health Insurance Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage
Cabral, Marika; Geruso, Michael; Mahoney, Neale - 2014
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IT, Organizational Change and Wages
Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - 2003
In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects differ across different IT components. Unless employees use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297336
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Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …, data of the German IT survey point towards the need to differentiate between types of IT investment. It is shown that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297561
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Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2008
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
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IT is never too late for changes? Analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2010
The paper analyses the relationship between two major challenges firms are faced to: using the potentials of information technologies (IT) as an enabler of process innovations on the one hand and an ageing workforce that might interfere these potentials on the other hand. Econometric results...
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand … to study the effects of ethnic diversity. Many of these studies have appeared since the pioneering survey by Alesina and … La Ferrara (2005a), and have not been covered by a survey before. …
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