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Why Are Not-For-Profit Hospitals in the US So Much More Profitable Than For-Profit Hospitals?
Mouré, Christopher; Gorsky, Shai - 2023
When it comes to social institutions, not-for-profit organizations (NFPs) allegedly strike a balance between the private and public realm. While privately owned and operated, not-for-profits are distinguished by their ostensibly public purpose – in eschewing private profits, they claim to make...
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Unhealthy Profits
Mouré, Christopher; Gorsky, Shai - 2023
FROM THE ARTICLE: At the end of November 2023, the New York Times published an editorial: Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals … accumulate large profits over years. Yet in the NFP world of large US hospitals, profit, rather than public purpose, seems to …
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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in response to reduced revenues, the evidence I have …
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Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
Beckert, Jens - 2017
Capitalist dynamics is energized in part by imaginaries of future states of the world (Beckert 2016). The paper deals with two questions: Why do fictional expectations change in the course of capitalist development? And: Are fictional expectations becoming more important in contemporary capitalism?
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Wissenschaftler auf Zeit: Die Durchsetzung der Personalpolitik der Befristung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft seit den 1970er-Jahren
Leendertz, Ariane - 2020
Die Mehrheit des wissenschaftlichen Personals an den Hochschulen und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen in Deutschland ist heute befristet beschäftigt. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert die Ursachen und Dynamiken dieser Entwicklung, die in den 1970er-Jahren begann, am Gegenstand der...
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The knowledge filter, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
Carlsson, Bo; Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2007
This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. Accor-ding to the "new growth theory," investments in knowledge and human capital ge-nerate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the...
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Understanding Long-Term Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Usa
Tol, Richard S.J.; Pacala, Stephen W.; Socolow, Robert - 2006
We compile a database of energy uses, energy sources, and carbon dioxide emissions for the USA for the period 1850 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312635
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Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
Lechner, Michael; Gerfin, Michael - 2000
In the second part of the 1990?s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
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The Value of Pain Relief
Furnée, Carina; Kemler, Marius; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch … compared with administrative data of healthy workers to calibrate the treatment?s net present value of capacity improvement … treatment. The value of advanced improvement, when on-the-job learning capacity is recovered, amounts to 150,000 Dutch guilders …
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Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment
van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2001
We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...
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