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Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain … variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how … adoption is affected by bias in the perceived skill to implement the technology. We develop a Bayesian framework in which the …
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Research and development (R&D) and technology are analyzed from the perspective of Philippine economic growth in the …&D and technology. General R&D and technology policies and institutional structure and arrangements are examined. National …
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health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring over this period …
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Of the diverse factors motivating technological change, one factor that has received increasing attention in the recent past has been the protection of intellectual property rights. Given fairly recent changes in the international policy ethos where a regime of stronger intellectual property...
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When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the … university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same …
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This paper studies the evolution of early retirement due to disease and injury in the German labor force between 1988 and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the WHO Mortality Database, we show that new drug launches...
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from Germany's pay-as-you-go pension system. Investments in new medical technology and better access to existing health …
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make, for example, by purchasing medical care and that society makes by advancing medical technology. We aim to show how … to induce voluntary health investments by individuals and improve society's incentives to adopt new medical technology … would be inefficient. The aggregate ability and willingness to pay for medical care and technology will be greater, the …
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