Few empirical studies have analyzed the return to distance higher education in different academic disciplines. This study used quantitative methods, data from a nationwide survey, and Mincerian earnings function analyze among disciplines China’s labor market. Results were compared with face-to-face showed that returns than those education. Returns of economics management at high level both educ...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic conditions are not only related to poor health outcomes, they also contribute to the chances of recovery from stroke. This study examines whether income and education were predictors of return to work after a first stroke among persons aged 40-59. METHODS All first-stroke survivors aged 40-59 who were discharged from a hospital in 1996-2000 and who had received income...

BACKGROUND Government- and charity-funded medical research and private sector research and development (R&D) are widely held to be complements. The only attempts to measure this complementarity so far have used data from the United States of America and are inevitably increasingly out of date. This study estimates the magnitude of the effect of government and charity biomedical and health resea...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent of provider communication, predictors of good communication and the association between provider communication and patient outcomes, such as patient satisfaction, in seven sub-Saharan African countries. DESIGN Cross-sectional, multicountry study. SETTING Data from recent Service Provision Assessment (SPA) surveys from seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa....

We study employment policies in private loss firms and their impact on reversal. show that employee retention positively affects the likelihood of a return to profitability with family CEOs, who are typically averse dismissals for reasons mainly related preserving socioemotional wealth. This effect is more pronounced transitory (i.e., less severe) losses. Further analysis suggests productivity ...

This paper aims to assess the reward that employees receive from education in Kosovo labour market terms of a wage premium. The incentive address this issue comes as result high increase participation formal recent decades, especially higher education. research is mainly focused on private benefits education, increases, assessed through return investment For research, microdata Labour Force Sur...