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The effects of population aging on future health care costs are an important public policy concern in many countries … information about payments to physicians, by age and sex of patients. Using it, we derive age/cost profiles for 19 categories of … physicians. Adopting an index-theoretic framework, we then use the profiles to analyse the "pure" effects of population change …
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among categories of physicians. These findings suggest that the emphasis on population aging in policy discussions of future …The effects of population change on requirements for physicians in Ontario are studied. Principal findings are the … the preceding two decades; (b) population aging alone will raise the overall rate of growth of requirements but that will …
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The effects of population aging on future health care costs are an important public policy concern in many countries … information about payments to physicians, by age and sex of patients. Using it, we derive age/cost profiles for 19 categories of … physicians. Adopting an index-theoretic framework, we then use the profiles to analyse the "pure" effects of population change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181121
This paper looks at some negative effects of Brain Drain for Poland. We propose to look at specific numbers of human capital emigration from Poland, in particular those for the medical professions outflow. We juxtapose the relevant data on human capital migration from Poland with the most...
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This paper looks at the prospects of a demographic dividend in Africa in the near future. While acknowledging that the fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to have stalled once they have begun, we nevertheless...
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We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view...
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How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world … will be characterized for the coming decades by aging populations. Changes in the age distribution of a population are an …
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Managing rapid population growth and spurring economic growth are among the most pressing policy challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss the links between them and investigate the potential of family planning programs to address these challenges. Specifically, we estimate the impact of...
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We examine the role of demographics and changing industrial policies in ac- counting for the rapid rise in household savings and in per capita output growth in China since the mid-1970s. The demographic changes come from reductions in the fertility rate and increases in the life expectancy,...
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We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …
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