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Hospital policy and productivity : evidence from German states
Karmann, Alexander; Rösel, Felix - 2016
period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541297
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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214544
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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217432
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Hospital Productivity : The Role of Efficiency Drivers
Ali, Manhal; Salehnejad, Reza; Mansur, Mohaimen - 2016
across NHS hospitals. This research investigates factors that may explain variations in hospital productivity. We employ a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126059
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Investigating exploitation and productivity in explaining the disability wage penalty
Saloniki, Eirini-Christina - 2014
The paper explains the low wages of the disabled in a monopsonistic framework. In the disabled market firms face different costs of adjustment ("disabled-friendly" firm vs. "disabled-unfriendly" firm), high or low, and offer wages according to these costs. Hence, there will be high- and low-paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402316
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Death by Market Power : Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service
Gaynor, Martin - 2014
between hospitals. Using this policy to implement a difference-in-differences research design, we estimate the impact of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067714
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Against All Odds : The Contribution of the Healthcare Sector to Productivity. Evidence from Italy and UK from 2004 to 2011
Atella, Vincenzo - 2017
We assess the productivity growth of the English and Italian healthcare systems over the period from 2004 to 2011. The English (NHS) and the Italian (SSN) healthcare systems share many similar features, facilitating comparison: basic founding principles, financing, organization, management, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941562
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Learning-by-doing and productivity growth among high-skilled workers : evidence from the treatment of heart attacks
James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2022
Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context of heart attack treatments in Sweden, where we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990337
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Learning-by-doing and productivity growth among high-skilled workers: evidence from the treatment of heart attacks
Lundborg, Petter; James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; … - 2021
Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context of heart attack treatments in Sweden, where we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624924
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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António; Cabral … - 2021
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … change. The results show that, on average, Portuguese hospitals did not experience productivity growth during the period … analyzed. In addition, the incidence of positive productivity growth across Portuguese hospitals was remarkably low …
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