Background: Compared with the number of studies performed in the United States, few studies have been conducted on the link between health insurance and healthcare consumption in Europe, likely because most European countries have compulsory national health insurance (NHI) or a national health...

Geographic variation in use of elective surgeries has been widely studied in the US, where over-utilization is incentivized. We wanted to explore recent trends in the geographic variation of common surgical procedures in France – where a global budget, centralized planning process, and...

This article investigates whether a cancer diagnosis can cause a permanent loss in employability. In this regard, we evaluate the impact of cancer on labor market conditions by constructing transition matrices to compare the transitions between occupational states. We obtain a set of statistics...

[eng] Government Debt and Exchange Rate Dynamics: Empirical Evidence for G7 Countries over the Last Two Decades . by Alain Paraponaris . Empirical exchange rate studies can be roughly divided into univariate models and open economy macroeconomic models. The former have no particular grounding in...

Women represent a growing proportion of the physician workforce, worldwide. Therefore, for the purposes of workforce planning, it is increasingly important to understand differences in how male and female physicians work and might respond to financial incentives. A recent survey allowed us to...

Cancer survivors frequently shift to part-time job, unemployment and early retirement, probably more than the general population. We re-evaluated the impact of cancer in the labour market, using ?comparative? transition matrices between occupational states. The proper consequences of cancer were...