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Do elderly choose nursing homes by quality, price or location?

Stroka, Magdalena; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2015

Quality report cards addressing information asymmetry in the health care market have become a popular strategy used by policymakers to improve the quality of care for elderly. Using individual level data from the largest German sickness fund merged with institutional level data, we examine the...

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Famílias produtoras de tabaco: Uma análise institucional de sua qualidade de vida e saúde

Glasenapp, Sirlei; da Silva, Leonardo Xavier; Peiter, … - 2015

in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The production structure is made up mostly of small family farms with …

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A new track for technology: Can ICT take care for healthier lifestyles?

Baum, Peter - 2011

The paper takes a look on potential contribution of Information and Communication Technologies to abate public health challenges caused by demographics and lifestyle. From the current convergence of mhealth, and sport market products emerge targeting normal athletes to control their training in...

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Thiele, Rainer; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2010

This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a …

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From dusk till dawn - Are nights a dangerous time for hospital admissions?

Hentschker, Corinna - 2017

This paper addresses the question whether patients have a higher risk of death if they are admitted to a hospital during the night rather than during the day. Since hospital resources are reduced at nights, night admissions might be more dangerous. The empirical analysis is based on matching....

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The Model of Friendly Work Environment for Older Employees in Slovenia

Čančer, Vesna; Rožman, Maja - 2020

In the context of demographic changes and active aging in the workplace, managing age diversity contributes to creating new perspectives across the entire field of human resource management. The main objective of this paper is to determine the impact of appropriate working conditions and...

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Health Effects of Instruction Intensity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in German High-Schools

Quis, Johanna Sophie; Mehl, Simon - 2018

A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this discussion by analyzing the health...

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Coming to work while sick: An economic theory of presenteeism with an application to German data

Hirsch, Boris; Lechmann, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - 2016

Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in the disutility from workplace attendance. As...

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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: A Natural Experiment from Power Plant Desulfurization

Lüchinger, Simon - 2010

The paper estimates the effect of SO2 pollution on infant mortality in Germany, 1985-2003. To avoid simultaneity … are comparable across subsamples. Excess mortality mainly accrues in the first month after birth. …

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Arctic Zone of the North-Eastern region of Russia: problems of demographic development

Sukneva, Svetlana - 2014

mortality of the Arctic region. In Russia, in recent years, mortality rates are currently falling. The high mortality rate is … observed in the Arctic zone. The reason for this situation is the high level of mortality from external causes, which is one … Arctic zone. Priority directions to improve the demographic situation in the Arctic should be to reduce mortality and improve …

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