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Analysis of the organizational eco-systemic change in a cooperative society of fishing production

Vargas-Hernández, José G.; Salazar Echeagaray, … - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 1 (2016)

This work aims to analyze the organizational change that has taken the Cooperative Society of Fishing Production "The Patole", S.C. of R.L. de C.V. It is assumed that as a result of having implemented systems theory, it has improved its organizational development and thus fulfillment of its...

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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2016

We utilize the individual-level World War I Draft Registration Cards matched to late-nineteenth century hurricane paths and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects human capital development and labor market outcomes in...

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Organ donation in the lab : preferences and votes on the priority rule

Herr, Annika; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2015

An allocation rule that prioritizes registered donors increases the willingness to register for organ donation, as laboratory experiments show. In public opinion, however, this priority rule faces repugnance. We explore the discrepancy by implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment,...

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Maternal working hours and the well-being of adolescent children

Mendolia, Silvia - 2014

This study investigates how maternal working hours are related to various outcomes in children aged 11 to 15 using a sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research that examines the effects of maternal employment on children has been motivated by the rapid...

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Wasser für Gesundheit in Entwicklungsländern: Herausforderungen am Beispiel Jemen

Meier, Kristina; Rieckmann, Johannes - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 81 (2014) 35, pp. 815-821

the health of the inhabitants that had originally been anticipated as a result of the infrastructure measures fails to … the health of the inhabitants of the two provincial project towns was conducted in cooperation with the University of … Göttingen. Data for this study were collected in 2009. As well as assessing the health impacts, the evaluation also examined …

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Do unemployment benefits and employment protection influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Rottmann, Horst - 2014

market institutions when analyzing the effects of institutional and economic determinants on health. …

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Investigating exploitation and productivity in explaining the disability wage penalty

Saloniki, Eirini-Christina - 2014

The paper explains the low wages of the disabled in a monopsonistic framework. In the disabled market firms face different costs of adjustment ("disabled-friendly" firm vs. "disabled-unfriendly" firm), high or low, and offer wages according to these costs. Hence, there will be high- and low-paid...

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Gesundheitsfonds: effizientere Steuerung des Gesundheitssystems?

In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 8, pp. 535-552

In 2009 the German central health fund was implemented. It was the result of a political compromise. One political … party intended to equalise the risk structure among 130 different health care funds, and the other wanted to intensify … competition and to improve efficiency among the different health insurances. The fund is fl anked by a health-based risk …

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An empirical model of health care demand under non-linear pricing

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2014

In 2004, the German Social Health Insurance introduced a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. I … combine a structural model of health care demand and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the effect of that …

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Wages anatomy : labor supply of nurses and a comparison with physicians

Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2014 - This version November 2014

We estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of Registered Nurses' labor supply with random terms. A distinguished feature of our model is that random terms are correlated over time and jobs (habit persistence). Past options and not only the past optimal choices matter for the current choices....

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