Review is dedicated to examining the social and economic determinants of Medicare managed care participation, to learn from past experiences and to anticipate future concerns. The seven theme articles examine and help to explain: • How economic factors impact the decision by managed care plans to select their market areas. • The role of social and economic factors in explaining the decision ben...

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s current challenges for political and economic transformation. This MENA Trends Report focuses on the following issues: youth unemployment, gender, education, economy, the financial system, and the rule of law. It examines ten Arab countries: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, West Bank and Gaza, Syria, and Yemen. When comparisons ...

We construct a model, via educational expenditure, linking female labor supply to fertility and economic growth. Our paper includes three main themes. First, increases in parental time of teaching at home and educational expenditure lead to an increase in the level of human capital stock. Both home education and school education are inputs of the human capital production function. Second, the r...

Promotion of urbanization is one of characteristics of current societies that in their evolutionary trend results in establishment of megalopolis and brings the complex urban management in these huge population centers every day, together with new difficulties. Urban environmental problems, providing public and security services, green space and city fa�ade, urban economic problems, informing, ...

Introduction General Overviews Datasets Country Reports and Qualitative Data Journals Definitions of Federalism Federalism’s Purpose and Performance Economic Growth Economic Efficiency Deficit Reduction Corruption Redistribution and Unified Policy-Making Policy Innovation & Diffusion Peace-Preserving Federalism Secession Participation Effect on the Party System Understanding Variation in Federa...

human capital has important role on economic growth. this factor can increase labor and capital productivity. it can increase capacity of new technology and reduce criminal participation and improve voters’ political behavior and migration of people with high human capital to another region has effects on region and spatial spillover on other regions. the present study aimed to analyze the dire...

We develop an evolutionary model of growth in which agents choose how to allocate their time between private and social activities. We argue that a shift from social to private activities may foster marketbased growth, but also generate social poverty. Within a formal framework that merges a game theoretic analysis of the evolution of social participation with a model of dynamic accumulation of...

This paper analyses a model of overlapping generations in which agents who do not participate in the labor market are unable to borrow. Thus an increase in a fully funded pension raises aggregate savings even with a fixed participation rate, since private savings are not crowded out one-for-one. When labor force participation is determined endogenously, a rise in the level of fully funded pensi...