"Die Meta-Studie "Arbeitsmarktwirkungen moderner Technologien" ist seit den Kabinettstudien, die Ende der siebziger Jahre zum Thema "Technischer Fortschritt - Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt" vorgelegt worden waren, ein neuerlicher Versuch, dieses Forschungsfeld mit neuen Methoden...

"Die Meta-Studie "Arbeitsmarktwirkungen moderner Technologien" ist seit den Kabinettstudien, die Ende der siebziger Jahre zum Thema "Technischer Fortschritt - Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt" vorgelegt worden waren, ein neuerlicher Versuch, dieses Forschungsfeld mit neuen Methoden...

Rwanda, led by its Ministry of Health, was the first African country to implement Performance- Based Financing (PBF) nationwide in its health centers and hospitals. The country then went on to pilot RBF interventions at the community level. Rewarding community members who provide and use...

Verification in results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms is one of the key differentiators between it and related health financing structures such as social health insurance. Verifying that providers have achieved reported performance in RBF mechanisms is considered a crucial part of program...

It is commonly argued that in recent years pharmaceutical companies have targeted their research and development (R& D) at small improvements of existing compounds instead of riskier drastic innovations. In this paper, we show that the bias in the pharmaceutical industry toward small innovations...

In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency. Building on her analysis in The Cult of Efficiency, she argues that the language of efficiency, understood narrowly as cost-effectiveness, confronts distinctive problems when...

In healthcare there is a long held wisdom that ‘champions’ are a key aspect of organizational change. Drawing on organizational management theory, we examine the role of champions in three health and social care organizations in England as they attempt to move services to a remote model of...

This paper studies the relationship between the diffusion of innovative procedures for the treatment of heart attack and distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. Using a sample of 5,681 stays observed in French public hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight...

This paper studies the relationship between the diffusion of innovative procedures for the treatment of heart attack and distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. Using a sample of 5,681 stays observed in French public hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight...