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A comparative study of the Turkish and German health care systems with regard to quality management in psychiatric hospitals
Yilmaz, Fatma Kantas; Ugur, Tarik Naci Norbert; Rese, … - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 223-241
Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … management systems have been undergoing radical changes. Social health insurance system was established in Germany in 1880s and …, which is similar to the health care system in Germany, was set up. Differences are observed in the delivery of health care …
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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Income and longevity revisited: Do high-earning women live longer?
Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010
The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the loose relationship between own earnings and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285738
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Beyond the business cycle: Factors driving aggregate mortality rates
Hanewald, Katja - 2008
-economic and ecological factors as explanatory variables. Germany is chosen as an indicative example for other industrialized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265667
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries: Missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277988
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries: Missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311666
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Absence from work of the self-employed: A comparison with paid employees
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …Unter Verwendung eines großen repräsentativen Datensatzes für Deutschland stellt diese Studie Fehlzeiten von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325123
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Absence from work of the self-employed: A comparison with paid employees
Lechmann, Daniel S.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …Unter Verwendung eines großen repräsentativen Datensatzes für Deutschland stellt diese Studie Fehlzeiten von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326824
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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329000
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Questioning the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" absence from work in the public and private sector in Germany
Prümer, Stephanie; Schnabel, Claus - 2019
for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences … that the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" seems to be an exaggeration, at least for Germany. …. Mithilfe von repräsentativen Befragungsdaten für Deutschland finden wir tatsächlich höhere Fehlzeiten im Öffentlichen Sektor …
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