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Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care: Comparisons among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020

exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures …

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An account of disproportionate child healthcare utilization in Nigeria

Ihedimma, Godfrey Ikechukwu; Opara, Godwin I. - 2020

, they rely on their parents and or guardians for healthcare utilization. The study acknowledges the mismatch between … utilization and prevalence of illness across the country and the attendant inequality in healthcare utilization across regions … found that higher maternal educational levels increase child healthcare utilization. Other factors include increased wealth …

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Convex supply curves

Boehm, Christoph E.; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - 2020

utilization rate is a sufficient statistic for the supply elasticity. Using data on capacity utilization and three different …

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How green is your packaging – A comparative international study of cues consumers use to recognize environmentally friendly packaging

Herbes, Carsten; Beuthner, Christoph; Ramme, Iris - In: International Journal of Consumer Studies 44 (2020) 3, pp. 258-271

Consumers have grown increasingly aware of the impact of packaging on the environment. Therefore, interest has grown in more environmentally friendly packaging, but we wondered how consumers recognize ‘green’ as distinct from ‘grey’ when evaluating packaging. We asked over 3,000...

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Pension and Health Services Utilization: Evidence from Social Pension Expansion in China

Chen, Shanquan; Chen, Xi; Law, Stephen; Lucas, Henry; … - 2020

utilization, and estimates the size of pension required to influence such utilization. Using a nationally representative survey … undertook segmented regression analysis. Pension demonstrated heterogeneous effects on health service utilization by income. We … frequency of outpatient or inpatient service use. Breakpoints for pension to promote health service utilization were mainly …

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Chronic excess capacity and unemployment hysteresis in EU countries: A structural approach

Bassi, Federico - 2020

We develop a structural method for identifying the unobservable rate of capacity utilization in 14 EU countries, by … unemployment, especially after the 2008' financial crisis. We show that our series of the rate of capacity utilization are … efficiently as the DG ECFIN series of capacity utilization and output gaps. …

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Notes on the accumulation and utilization of capital: Some theoretical issues

Nikiforos, Michalis - 2020

utilization. First, it explains why utilization is a crucial variable for the various theories of growth and distribution …-run rate of utilization of capital. Finally, it argues that when it comes to the normal rate of utilization, it is the expected …

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Notes on the accumulation and utilization of capital: Some empirical issues

Nikiforos, Michalis - 2020

the Federal Reserve measure of capacity utilization and shows that it is closer to a cyclical indicator than a measure of … long run variations of normal utilization. Other measures, such as the average workweek of capital or the national … emergency utilization rate are more appropriate for examining long-run changes in utilization. Second, and related to that, it …

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The role of natural and human resources on economic growth and regional development: With discussion of open innovation dynamics

Saleh, Haeruddin; Surya, Batara; Ahmad, Despry Nur Annisa; … - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 6 (2020) 4, pp. 1-23

Regional economic growth is closely related to the optimization of the use of natural and human resources. This study aims to analyze: (1) The use of natural and human resource potential works as a determinant of the economic growth of Bulukumba Regency; (2) The influence of natural resources,...

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An analysis on the current situation of energy development and its environmental problems in Yulin City

Zhai, Xiaowei; Cheng, Zhuo; Chang, Shaohai; Ai, Xiaofei; … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 15-20

energy development and utilization process, and the enterprises with the biggest amount of industrial waste are from the … energy industry, of which the extensive development and utilization of principal energy is one of the main reasons for the …, and strengthen the utilization of main industrial solid wastes at the same time. …

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