This article examines the link between restrictions on the number of physicians and general practitioners’ (GPs) earnings. Using a representative panel of 6016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983–2004, we estimate an earnings function to identify experience, time and cohort effects....

The strategy currently adopted in France to deal with the ever-growing health expenditures is one of freezing compulsory deductions and broadening the scope of complementary insurance, while at the same time reaffirming that such insurance is optional. But individual freedom to take out...

We compare two approaches to measuring inequity in the health distribution. The first is the concentration index. The second is the calculation of the inequality in an overall measure of individual well-being, capturing both the income and health dimensions. We introduce the concept of...

This paper focuses on the switching behaviour of sickness fund enrolees in the Swiss health insurance system. Even though the new Federal Law on Social Health Insurance (LAMal) was implemented in 1996 to promote competition among health insurers in basic insurance, there still remains large...

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974–75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for 1970–79, and...

Cet article a pour but de comprendre les différences de productivité observées en France entre les hôpitaux publics, les hôpitaux privés à but non lucratif (PSPH) et les cliniques privées. Nous examinons s'il existe une influence de la composition de la patientèle et des séjours sur la...

We study the diffusion of innovative procedures for heart attack treatment, focusing on its impact on the distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. We perform microsimulations on a sample of 5,681 stays in French public hospitals to evaluate the impacts of adoption of new...