fin d’accroître le nombre de personnes ayant un médecin de famille – nombre qui est relativement faible au Québec – le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux a mis en place, en 2008, les guichets d’accès pour la clientèle orpheline (GACO). La politique GACO avait pour...

The rapid increase in unemployment at the beginning of the nineties in Switzerland has led to the introduction of a whole range of active labor market programs that should help the jobseekers to find a new job. In this paper we are analyzing the internal dynamics of unemployment by means of an...

Objectives The objective is to evaluate the use of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) as a screening tool for determining the causes of the non-justified days to help hospitals to decrease the length of stay while preserving the quality of care.Methods Three successive cross-sectional...

Previous studies on the determinants of the choice of college major have assumed a constant probability of sucess across majors or a constant earnings streamacross majors. Our model disregards these two restrictive assumptions in computing an expected earnings variable to explain the probability...

Underdeclarations Are Typical When Alcohol, Tobacco and Gambling Consumptions Are Questioned in Surveys. Recent Surveys on Expenditures on Lotteries Have Similar Problems: the Declared Expenditures Equal Between 60 to 65 Percent of the Revenues of the Various State-Run Lottery Entreprises. by...