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Malone, Ruth E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 56 (2003) 11, pp. 2317-2326

This paper considers the spatial dynamics of nurse-patient relationships within hospitals, primarily in the USA, under …

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Will the natural gas supply meet the demand in North America?

Laherrere, Jean - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 19 (2003) 1, pp. 1-62

The goal of this paper is to deliver to the reader a large number of graphs in order to allow him/her to choose the ones that he/she considers important to form his/her own opinion. Graphs from data are more important than statements which are mainly interpretation and political, but the problem...

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The International Banking Crisis: Lessons and EU Reforms

Welfens, Paul J.J. - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2009

The key dynamics of the transatlantic banking crisis are analyzed - with emphasis on the fact that the banking disaster of 2007/08 was not really a surprise -, and the five key requirements for restoring stability and efficiency in the EU/OECD banking sector are highlighted: Hedge funds should...

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CRUDE OIL AND MOTOR FUEL: FAIR PRICE REVISITED

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In April 2009, we introduced a model representing the evolution of motor fuel price (a subcategory of the consumer price index of transportation) relative to the overall CPI as a linear function of time. Under our framework, all price deviations from the linear trend are transient and the price...

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28th out of 30: Poor medicine and unhealthy Americans

Fullbrook, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In 1970 the USA spent 7% of its GNP on healthcare, in 200716%. Whereas the OECD average per capita expenditure on … healthcare in 2007 was $2,964, the USA spent $7,290. Yet in that same period, the health of America’s citizens relative to those … up around healthcare in the USA. Because the magnitude of the relative decline in healthcare in the USA is poorly …

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Life expectancy is the death-weighted average of the reciprocal of the survival-specific force of mortality

Cohen, Joel E. - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 5, pp. 115-128

The hazard of mortality is usually presented as a function of age, but can be defined as a function of the fraction of survivors. This definition enables us to derive new relationships for life expectancy. Specifically, in a life-table population with a positive age-specific force of mortality...

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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a...

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Television Production: Its Changing Global Location, the Product Cycle and China

Gao, Zhicun; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

This article concentrates on the global location of production of television receivers as a case study. The aim is to see if this accords with Vernon’s international product cycle theory or whether some modifications of the theory are required. The historical evolution of the global television...

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Equivalence Scales Based on Revealed Preference Consumption Expenditure Microdata - The Case of West Germany zu Lüneburg

Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1994

Equivalence scales are a prerequisite for any economic well-being comparison with measures on income distribution, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German...

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Two Scales, One Methodology - Expenditure Based Equivalence Scales for the United States and Germany

Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1994

Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic wellbeing income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...

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