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Handlungsstrategien in einem prekarisierten Beschäftigungssegment. Eine exemplarische Untersuchung der Medizinischen Fachangestellten / Strategies of action in an occupational fiel...
Kathmann, Till; Dingeldey, Irene - In: Arbeit 23 (2014) 3, pp. 242-255
regarded as a problem. Individual strategies of action are dominated by exit-options, put into practice as change of employer … or exit from the occupational field. Forms of collective action, named as ‘voice’, are hardly used. One has to cope …
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Competition Policy and Exit Rates: Evidence from Switzerland
Buehler, Stefan; Kaiser, Christian; Jaeger, Franz - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2005) 1, pp. 1-28
exit. We adopt a natural experiment approach to analyze the impact of a tightening of Swiss antitrust legislation on exit … probabilities. Based on a sample of more than 68,000 firms from all major sectors of the Swiss economy, we find that the exit … probability of non-exporting firms increased significantly, whereas the exit probability of exporting firms remained largely …
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From “great expectations” to “hard times”
Hanage, Richard; Scott, Jonathan M; Davies, Mark A.P. - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 22 (2016) 1, pp. 17-38
from business start-up to eventual exit. Practical implications – The insights gained have practical implications for start …
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Failure processes of exporting firms: evidence from France
Lukason, Oliver; Vissak, Tiia - In: Review of International Business and Strategy 27 (2017) 3, pp. 322-334
Purpose This paper aims to detect failure processes of French exporting firms and study their contingency with export processes. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 131 bankrupted exporting firms from Bureau van Dijk’s Amadeus database. Factor and cluster analyses of six...
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Managed Care and Physician Incentives: The Effects of Competition on the Cost and Quality of Care
Cooper, David J.; Rebitzer, James B - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1
Abstract We analyze the effect that competition between HMOs has on the cost and quality of medical services. Our key result is that increasing competition enhances consumer utility while also moderating the impact of managed care on quality and costs. Indeed, we find that heightened competition...
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Pricing Coordination Failures and Health Care Provider Integration
Eggleston, Karen; Norman, George; Pepall, Lynne Marie - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2004) 1, pp. 1-29
The rise of managed healthcare organizations (MCOs) and the associated increased integration among providers has transformed US healthcare and at the same time raised antitrust concern. This paper examines how competition among MCOs affects the efficiency gains of improved price coordination...
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Managed Care and Physician Incentives: The Effects of Competition on the Cost and Quality of Care
Cooper, David J.; Rebitzer, James B - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1
We analyze the effect that competition between HMOs has on the cost and quality of medical services. Our key result is that increasing competition enhances consumer utility while also moderating the impact of managed care on quality and costs. Indeed, we find that heightened competition between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014587525
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Hospital Quality and Selective Contracting: Evidence from Kidney Transplantation
Howard, David H. - In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy 11 (2008) 2
Most private health insurers offer a limited network of providers to enrollees. Critics have questioned whether selective contracting benefits patients. Plans counter that they take quality into account when choosing providers. Using data on five plans' networks for kidney transplant hospitals,...
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A Calculator for Energy Consumption Changes Arising from New Technologies
Saunders, Harry D - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2005) 1
technologies in different sectors, and comparing technology effectiveness across countries. A user-friendly software implementation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014586855
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Race and the Digital Divide
Fairlie, Robert W - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2004) 1, pp. 1-38
simply an "income divide" as income differences explain only 10 to 30 percent of the gaps in access to technology. I do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014587509