[spa] La dimensión sectorial de la formación de los salarios. . Un análisis comparativo de las industrias norteamericana, alemana y francesa, . por Brigitte Dormont, Jean Le Dem.. . El propósito del presente artículo es el de explorer simultáneamente las dimensiones sectoriales y...

This article examines the link between restrictions on the number of physicians and general practitioners' (GPs) earnings. Using a representative panel of 6016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983-2004, we estimate an earnings function to identify experience, time and cohort effects. The...

Hospital heterogeneity is a major issue in defining a reimbursement system. If hospitals are heterogeneous, it is difficult to distinguish which part of the differences in costs is due to cost containment efforts and which part cannot be reduced, because it is due to other unobserved sources of...

This paper studies the relationship between the diffusion of innovative procedures for the treatment of heart attack and the distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. Using a sample of 5,681 stays observed in French publics hospitals, we use micro-simulation techniques in order to...