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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers
Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018
Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...
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The Cultural Revolution, Stress and Cancer
Abeysinghe, Tilak; Gu, Jiaying - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The link between mental stress and cancer is still a belief, not a well established scientific fact. Scientists have … relied largely on opinions of cancer stricken patients to establish a link between stress and cancer. Such opinion surveys …. Cancer data from Shanghai analyzed through an age period cohort technique show very strong evidence in support of the …
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The relative value of suicide prevention in health care priority setting
Andrén, Daniela; Laitila, Thomas; Ryen, Linda; … - 2023
suicides in comparison to deaths due to pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, and acute heart attack. The choice set consisted of … lives by suicide prevention lower than saving lives from pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, or acute heart attack. …
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The labor and health economics of breast cancer
Ahammer, Alexander; Pruckner, Gerald J.; Stiftinger, Flora - 2024
We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …
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The labor and health economics of breast cancer
Ahammer, Alexander; Pruckner, Gerald J.; Stiftinger, Flora - 2024
We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015066059
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The growth disease at 50 : Baumol after Oulton
Hartwig, Jochen; Krämer, Hagen - 2017 - This version: June 2017
The year 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of William J. Baumol’s seminal model of "unbalanced growth", which predicts the so-called "Growth Disease", i.e., the tendency of aggregate productivity growth to slow down in the process of tertiarisation. In an important contribution published in...
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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business C...
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …
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Doing well by doing good : the role of Mexico's firms in achieving sustainable and inclusive growth
Gabriel, Mabel; Lenain, Patrick; Mehrez, Mirna; … - 2017
The private sector can be a strategic partner in the pursuit of sustainable and inclusive growth, with the ability to have a profound impact, particularly in areas such as climate change, inclusiveness, equality and good governance. Firms could contribute through three different approaches:...
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Economics of artificial intelligence : implications for the future of work
Ernst, Ekkehardt; Merola, Rossana; Samaan, Daniel - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-35
The current wave of technological change based on advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) has created widespread fear of job loss and further rises in inequality. This paper discusses the rationale for these fears, highlighting the specific nature of AI and comparing previous waves of...
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Grossman's missing health threshold
Galama, Titus J.; Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
We present a generalized solution to Grossman's model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an "optimalʺ level without adjustment costs. The Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health threshold...
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