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markets significantly worsen hospital outcomes in terms of quality and productivity. A 10% increase in the outside wage is … effects on labor supply and on the productivity of public services in areas with strong local labor markets. In this paper we … should suffer from problems of recruiting, retaining and motivating workers and this should harm hospital performance. We …
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the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition … introduction of competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. We find that the effect of …
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this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … examine the impact of mergers on a large set of outcomes including financial performance, productivity, waiting times and …
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this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … examine the impact of mergers on a large set of outcomes including financial performance, productivity, waiting times and …
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Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an important part of the health care market using data...
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The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
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