real terms. Ninety five per cent of the income of medical schemes was derived from membership fees. The average real growth … rate of income was 8.4 per cent, while net assets increased by only 3 per cent. An average deficit of R11.02 million …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to controlfor individual unobservable heterogeneity … health we find evidence of a significant positive effect of current income on health. However, after controlling for …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada …This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that … and the USAChapter 4 examines the effects of income level and income drops on all-cause mortality in Canada and the United …

focus more on measures to foster TFP growth than on specific price or quantity instruments to enhance income growth. …

, off-farm income, forward contracting sales of crops and livestock, and computer use are positively related to a farmer …

of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational … wage and salary income. The emphasis is on the United States and other advanced industrial countries, with some discussion …

in the determination of royalty income, as well as, tabled results of the royalty runs (detailed in Appendix G). The … transmission cost. Individual data sheets for each KGRA royalty income run are presented in Appendix G. …