Hartwig, Jochen; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2012
Hartwig (2008) has presented empirical evidence that the difference between real wage growth and productivity growth at the macroeconomic level is a robust explanatory variable for deflated health-care expenditure growth in OECD countries. In this paper, we test whether this finding is robust to...