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The Mitigating Role of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the Abuse of Prescription Drugs
Birk, Erica - 2017
In response to the epidemic of prescription-drug abuse, now 49 US states have passed legislation to establish Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). These programs track controlled-substance prescribing and usage behavior in an effort to improve patient outcomes and identify and preempt...
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Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
Félix, Sónia - 2015
This study is an empirical assessment of the impact of the drug decriminalization policy followed by Portugal in July, 2001. We investigate especially the impact of the policy change on the price of illicit drugs. The analysis is performed using a difference-in-differences approach and a...
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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
Nelen, Annemarie - 2011
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a hard physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
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Do-it-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020
Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, little is known about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended liberalization of a CBD-based product (light cannabis) that occurred in Italy in 2017. Using...
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Vaccines at Work
Hoffmann, Manuel - 2020
Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador,...
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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices : Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other countries) to an "internal" (based on comparable domestic products) reference price system.We find that...
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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …
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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment : An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany
Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment : An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008
individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …
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