Zur Objektivierung von Belastung und Beanspruchung beim Kommissionieren in Kälte wurden insgesamt 120 Ganztagsanalysen mit 60 Arbeitspersonen (Apn) in einem Kühl- (+3 °C) bzw. Tiefkühllager (−24 °C) durchgeführt. Während des Kommissionierens von 2–15 kg schweren Warenpaketen mit einer...

The objective of this research is to learn about the status of patent applications for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The paper analyzes the different claim strategies used by applicants to obtain patent protection. The database constructed and described in South Centre Research Paper No. 186 was...

Der vorliegende Band enthält die überarbeiteten und ausschussintern - anonym - begutachteten Beiträge eines großen Teiles der Vorträge, die während zweier Sitzungen des Ausschusses 'Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Ethik' im Verein für Socialpolitik gehalten worden sind. Die Sitzungen fanden...

This paper investigates the link between health care expenditures and GDP for a sample of 21 OECD countries using recent developed panel cointegration techniques. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis accounts for the fact that health care expenditures are not only determined by income....

From individual-level longitudinal data for two entire cohorts of medical students in UK universities, we analyse the probability that an individual student will ?drop out? of medical school prior to the successful completion of their studies. We examine the cohort of students enrolling for a...

Children are therapeutic orphans and an underprivileged group in innovations derived from drug therapy. As the innovation process of pharmaceuticals is a long, risky and very costly business, economists typically emphasise lack of profit incentives and small market size as the most important...

Dieser Aufsatz stellt die entscheidungstheoretischen Grundlagen der Produktion von Gesundheitsleistungen dar und leitet daraus Schlussfolgerungen für die Gesundheitspolitik ab. Die bedeutendste Herausforderung am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts liegt darin, die Diffusion neuen medizinischen Wissens...

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...

Dean Baker and Adriane Fugh-Berman have published a critique of a study I performed in 2007, entitled Why has longevity increased more in some states than in others?" One of the conclusions I drew from that study was that medical innovation accounts for a substantial portion of recent increases...