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Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social … the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of SP on disaggregated labor market decisions, taking into account …. Income effects are also apparent, with significantly decreased flows out of unemployment and lower labor force participation …
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Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social … the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of SP on disaggregated labor market decisions, taking into account …. Income effects are also apparent, with significantly decreased flows out of unemployment and lower labor force participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280662
This study examines whether Seguro Popular, a free-of-charge publicly provided health insurance program for otherwise … uninsured households, crowded-out private transfers in Mexico. Using data from the National Household Income and Expenditure … sequential roll-out throughout Mexico. The results show that Seguro Popular reduced on average a household's probability of …
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This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant … COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant issues under the lens of a health labor market. In particular, the … paper interprets this information and knowledge by focusing on the supply, demand, and mismatches in a health labor market …
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Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in access to abortion and family planning services,...
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This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a key feature of this macroeconomic phenomenon: it behaves like a disease. A detailed assessment of the transmission mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of...
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Introduction: The World Health Report 2006 defined 'availability', 'competence', 'responsiveness' and 'productivity' as … the key dimensions of the health workforce (HWF) performance framework. Since then, new goals have been set to address … population health needs by optimizing HWF performance and quality. The aim of this scoping review is to identify aspects of HWF …
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study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … health. …
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providing an analysis of the implications of poverty dynamics for the graduation of beneficiaries of Mexico's Oportunidades … three rounds of the longitudinal Mexican Family Life Survey, we find that Oportunidades could 'graduate' only 28.9 and 26 …' or eligibility assessment of Oportunidades - which takes place every three years - could be optimized by conducting it …
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In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the … level in order to differentiate between a competitive and a monopsonistic structured labor market. The composition of the … sector-specific labor market serves again as a basis to evaluate whether the consequences of the minimum wage can be taken as …
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