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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?

Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...

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Universal Health Coverage and the Challenge of Informal Employment: Lessons from Developing Countries

Bitran, Ricardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The aim of the report is to review existing approaches and available policy options to improve access to health care services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Along with their families, ISWs represent the majority of the population in many...

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The private exercise of public functions

Thompson, Dennis L. (contributor) - 1985

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Performance of public sector and private sector industries

National Institute of Social and Economic Research - 1972

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Public sector wage premium in Poland: can it be explained by structural differences in employment?

Grotkowska, Gabriela; Wincenciak, Leszek - In: Ekonomia journal 38 (2014)

countries justifies this belief. In general, the observed regularity is that the average wage in the public sector exceeds the … average wage in the private one. The difference is sometimes quite substantial. The comparison of raw average wages suggesting … differentiated structure of employment. We use LFS data for Poland and a Mincerean wage regression with Heckman correction …

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Pay Differentials between Government and Private Sector Employees in Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977

The human capital model predicts that in equilibrium and in the absence of discrimination units of human capital possessed by individuals are paid the same rentals. This would hold also when comparing private and government sectors. Only non-pecuniary rewards such as better job security of...

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