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In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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In diesem Working-Paper werden Faktoren untersucht, die die Einweisungsentscheidung niedergelassener Ärzte in der Praxis beeinflussen. Im Rahmen dessen wurden Hypothesen formuliert, welche auf der Datenbasis von neun teilnehmenden Krankenhäusern am durchgeführten Projekt zum Einweiser-...
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Housing and health are critical issues for policymakers and the public. Secure and affordable housing, along with quick access to required health and social care, are considered essential services for the public and are key targets for planners. In Ireland, as in many countries, the need to...
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Struktur- und Leistungsdaten gemäß § 21 Abs. 1 KHEntgG des Instituts für das Entgeltsystem im Krankenhaus (InEK) für die vollen …
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This paper develops a simple model that analyses the relationship between a country's oil endowment and the duration of … coup d'état and establish a new dictator. The relationship between oil endowment and the duration of the dictatorial regime … is modulated by the price of oil. Applying an empirical survival model on data for the duration of 106 dictatorships …
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these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of trade duration across regions and to identify its determinants … variables on the duration of trade relationships from 96 countries from 1995 to 2004. Our results suggest first that the … duration of trade relationships increases with the region level of development: trade relationships from richer economies face …
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end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on …
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This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …
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