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A panel data study of physicians' labor supply : the case of Norway

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bratberg, Espen; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2003

provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with …Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it … other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 physicians observed over the …

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Bounded rationality and socially optimal limits on choice in a self-selection model

Sheshinski, Eytan - 2003

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Social security incentives and human capital investment

Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

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Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families

Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - 2001

1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …

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Health service gatekeepers

Malcomson, James M. - 2003

Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treatment costs must be...

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Selling reputation when going out of business

Hakenes, Hendrik; Peitz, Martin - 2004

Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has to retire even though ownership change is observable? We consider a competitive market in which a share of owners must retire in each period. New owners, observing only recent profits, bid for the firms on sale. Customers are...

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Strategic interaction in the market for physician services : the treadmill effect in a fixed budget system

Benstetter, Franz - 2001

We examine the strategic interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is fixed. We show that this prospective payment system involves - compared to a fee-for-service remuneration system - a severe coordination problem, which potentially leads to the...

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Adverse selection in the annuity market with sequential and simultaneous insurance demand

Brunner, Johann K.; Pech, Susanne - 2002

retirement. In order to introduce the existence of limited-time pension insurance, we assume that for each period of retirement …

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Adverse selection in the annuity market when payoffs vary over the time of retirement

Brunner, Johann K.; Pech, Susanne - 2001

with two retirement periods. In this framework annuity companies can offer contracts with different payoffs over the … periods of retirement. Varying the time structure of the payoffs affects annuity demand and welfare of individuals with low …

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Endogenous business cycles and growth

Wälde, Klaus - 2003

Current explanations why a growing economy necessarily goes through booms and recessions predict countercyclical R&D investment. As this is very controversial from an empirical perspective, a stochastic Poisson model of endogenous business cycles and growth is presented where the determinants of...

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