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 …

of their expectations on future income growth rates: the shadow of unemployment. Using consumption panel data that …By how much do employed households reduce their consumption when the aggregate unemployment rate rises? In Spain during … the Great Recession a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate was related to a strong drop in household …

Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem … raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected …

relation between the job–finding rate and the vacancy–unemployment ratio, provided that search costs are small and that search …