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Waiting time distribution in public health care: Empirics and theory

Dimakou, Sofia; Dimakou, Ourania; Basso, Henrique S. - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 25, pp. 1-27

hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …

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The urban–rural gap in healthcare infrastructure: does government ideology matter?

Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - In: Regional Studies 54 (2020) 3, pp. 340-351

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as healthcare facilities have substantial socioeconomic effects. Little is known, however, about why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. This study exploits narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between...

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Management information systems and technologies in public hospitals

Silva Luzia, José Manuel; Bertuzi da Silva, Rui Filipe; … - In: The International Journal of Management Science and … (2016) 19, pp. 21-38

management procedures in the hospital sector. We therefore intended to evidence the effects of the use of the information … produced by means of those instruments in the improvement of management performance and as support to decision-making. In this … study, which took place under the Gesiti/Hospital international research project "Evaluation of Management Information …

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Making sense of Arab labor markets: The enduring legacy of dualism

Assaad, Ragui - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high youth unemployment, weak private sectors, rapidly growing but highly distorted educational attainment, and low and stagnant female labor force participation. I argue in...

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Does it pay to be a public-sector employee?

Postel-Vinay, Fabien - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Direct wage comparisons show that public-sector employees earn around 15% more than private-sector employees. But should these differences be interpreted as a “public-sector premium”? Two points need to be considered. First, the public and private sectors differ in the jobs they offer and...

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Exploring the public-private sector wage gap in European countries

Christofides, Louis N.; Michael, Maria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-53

We estimate the public-private sector pay gap for 27 European countries, using the 2008 EU SILC. The coefficients of conditional (on personal and job characteristics) public sector controls give a first impression on wage differences, while decompositions into explained and unexplained...

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Understanding the public sector pay gap

Campos, Maria M.; Depalo, Domenico; Papapetrou, Evangelia; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 6 (2017) 7, pp. 1-29

-sectional variation of the sample can be accounted for by the degree of exposure to international competition, as well as by the size of …

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Recruiting High Quality Teachers

Dolton, Peter - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 11-20

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Wage policies in the public sector during wholesale privatization

Nikolic, Jelena - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Examining the implications of changes in public sector wage-setting arrangements due to privatization is a relatively new area of economics research, with few studies having analyzed the effects of public sector restructuring on relative wages in developed countries. There is, however, a growing...

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Revisiting the publicprivate wage gap in Spain: New evidence and interpretation

de León, Alba Couceiro; Dolado, Juan J. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 3/4, pp. 353-377

This paper updates the available evidence on the public-private wage gap in Spain, which dates back to 2012. Through microdata drawn from the last three waves of the Wage Structure Survey (2010, 2014 and 2018), we study how this gap and its distribution by gender and education have evolved...

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