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Income cap or threshold systems rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little is known about how physicians respond to these incentives. Conceptually, the threshold system is to physicians what an income tax system is to taxpayers. We exploit this...
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Income cap or threshold systems rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little is known about how physicians respond to these incentives. Conceptually, the threshold system is to physicians what an income tax system is to taxpayers. We exploit this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822559
. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …
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The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person’s happiness. Extending previous … studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person’s happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those …
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social tolerance of employees (i.e., an example of socio-emotional skills within a workplace) on their happiness. In our … happiness by itself, it has been observed to show a significant impact on the level of trust among employees. Trust among … colleagues also in its own turn significantly impacts the employees’ level of happiness. This finding can be applied in …
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This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...
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the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …
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In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …
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A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non-market valuation approach: the experienced preference approach. In...
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women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …
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