The Digest | NBER
When unemployment is low, and the labor market is tight, there is greater upward pressure on wages and,... ...
The Impact of Exempting Medical Providers from Malpractice Protection | NBER
... whose physicians are subject to such pressure, we can identify the impact of defensive medicine pressure on practice patterns, ... By comparing patients whose physicians are not subject to "defensive medicine" pressure to other comparable patients (perhaps ... provides a novel opportunity to understand how the presence of malpractice pressure leads to "defensive medicine." The MHS ... of patients whose physicians face no malpractice pressure. Under federal law, active duty physicians who treat active duty ...
Are Immigrants a Shot in the Arm for the Local Economy? | NBER
This effect can attenuate downward pressure from immigrants on non-immigrants wages, and also benefit non-immigrants by ...
The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing | NBER
First, patients stop taking drugs that not only appear high-value (e.g., blood pressure medications), but are also known to ...
C-Suite Differences: Public versus Privately Held Firms | NBER
This pattern suggests the existence of a fluid labor market between public and private CEO jobs that may put upward pressure on ...
Saving Rates in Developing Asia | NBER
... substantial downward pressure caused by the rapid population aging will be roughly offset by the substantial upward pressure ...
Program Report: International Finance and Macroeconomics, 2015 | NBER
"Exchange Market Pressure and Absorption by International Reserves: Emerging Markets and Fear of Reserve Loss During the 2008-09 ...
Putting the Co in Education: Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present | NBER
Rather than being episodic and caused by financial pressures brought about by wars and recessions, the process of switching ...