A recent legal trend involves the resolution of disputes between health plans and nonparticipating providers. These individuals have not entered into a formal participation or services agreement with the health plan, but they may be eligible for and legally entitled to reimbursement for services rendered to plan participants. Resolution of these disputes can hinge on a number of factors, includ...

This paper uses data on over 800,000 cultural participants in 1996 and 2004 to examine changes in patterns of cultural participation over these years. The authors discover a consistent pattern in which areas of metropolitan Philadelphia with a large number of cultural organizations are those most likely to have high rates of participation. The connection between institutional presence and cultu...

As 2013 drew to a close, Premier Healthcare Alliance predicted that participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs) would double in 2014 as a result of more providers developing core ACO capabilities.1 Premier’s forecast was made on the basis of its survey of 115 senior executives that revealed a growing trend in high-risk population management, coupled with reductions in cost and increa...

Each generation of digital innovation has caused a dramatic change in the way people work. Sharing economy is the latest trend of digital innovation, and it has fundamentally changed the traditional business models. In this paper, we empirically examine the impacts of the sharing economy platforms (specifically, Uber) on the labor market in terms of labor force participation, unemployment rate,...

This paper presents a stochastic model to forecast the German population and labor supply until 2060. Within a cohort-component approach, our population forecast applies principal components analysis to birth, mortality, emigration, and immigration rates, which allows for the reduction of dimensionality and accounts for correlation of the rates. Labor force participation rates are estimated by ...

All across Europe, old age labor force participation has declined dramatically during the last decades. This secular trend coincides with population aging. The European social security systems therefore face a double threat: Retirees receive pensions for a longer time while there are less workers per retiree to shoulder the financial burden of the pension systems. This paper shows that a signif...

The initiative of our research is to build a geo-writable web, using open source technologies for people's participation online. This paper is the key underpinning for the new emerging trend “online community mapping” as a conceptualized model combined with information/computer science, geography, and sociology, which we have proposed recently. In particular, we argue that public access to geos...

Women politicalparticipation in Nigeria is an issue of concern to many because of the continuing record of women's underrepresentation in both elective and appointive positions. Although, several effortshave been made by both government and non-governmental organizations to increase the level of women's participation in politics through affirmative action. This paper examined these efforts and ...