Optimal Pre-Announced Tax Reform Revisited [PDF]
Domeij and Klein (2005) have shown that the welfare gains of an optimal capital and labor income tax reform decline the longer the reform is pre-announced before its implementation. In other words, pre-announcement is costly in terms of welfare.
Mathias Trabandt
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Can mobile phones enhance refugees' integration? : a South African perspective [PDF]
, 2010 Supervisor: K.A. Johnstone Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-56)
Bacishoga, Kasky Bisimwa
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Patient safety in Europe: medication errors and hospital-acquired infections [PDF]
, 2008 The Report was commissioned by the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN) in November 2007 in order to support its policy statements on Patient Safety (June 2004).
Smith, L.N. +7 more
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Economic evaluation of health care technologies: A comparison of alternative decision modelling techniques [PDF]
, 2001 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 14/6/2001.The focus of this thesis is on the application of decision models to the economic evaluation of health care technologies.
Karnon, J.D., Karnon, Jonathan Daniel
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The Limitations and Robustness of Data Assimilation in Terrestrial Ecosystem Modelling. [PDF]
, 2013 Accurately estimating how much carbon is leaving the atmosphere and being taken up by plants, by processes such as photosynthesis, is critical in order to make accurate climate forecasts. There is a large uncertainty of this atmosphere-plant carbon flux,
Ryan, Edmund
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Potential for patients and community level medical practitioners to influence high technology healthcare: evidence from Perth, Western Australia [PDF]
, 2007 Evidence is presented from a Case Study of the Inquiry into King Edward Memorial Hospital, a tertiary level maternity hospital in Perth, Western Australia, that values of medical professionalism can be distorted and contribute to impaired standards of ...
Thomas, Terrance
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South-South Migration and Human Development: Reflections on African Experiences [PDF]
This paper looks at the relationship between migration between developing countries – or countries of the global ‘South’ – and processes of human development.
Oliver Bakewell
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The use of multi-sensory stimulation to improve functional performance in older people with dementia: a randomised single blind trial [PDF]
, 2007 Dementia affects over 750,000 people in the UK (Alzheimer’s society, 2003). Clinicians and healthcare managers report dissatisfaction with current healthcare options available for people with dementia (Stubbings & Sharp, 1999).
Collier, Lesley
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A Multi-Country Study of Inter-Generational Educational Mobility [PDF]
This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge.
Arnaud Chevalier +2 more
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Being connected: an exploration of women’s weight loss experience and the implications for health education [PDF]
, 2010 The focus of this thesis is the experience of intentional weight loss. There is agrowing recognition that the rising levels of obesity are contributing to a global healthproblem.
Burdett, Teresa Marion
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