John W. Ruser is Chief, Compensation Research and Program Development Group, Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: [email protected] The Employment Cost Index (ECI) is a quarterly measure of the change in the price of labor, defined as compensation per employee hour worked. Closely watched by many economists, the ECI is an indicator of cost pressures w...

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This monograph highlights the multiple payoffs from comparing patterns of cancer care, costs, and outcomes across health systems, both within a single country or across countries, and at a point in time or over time. The focus of comparative studies can be on the relative performance of systems in delivering quality cancer care, in controlling the cost of cancer care, or in improving outcomes, ...

Tornqvist-Theil indexes of outputs and inputs are constructed. These data are used to construct indexes of productivity growth over the postwar period. The productivity indexes can be derived from a flexible multioutput-multifactor representation of the structure of production constrained to constant returns to scale. Total factor productivity grew at an average annual rate of 1.75%, compared w...

BACKGROUND While recognizing the recent remarkable achievement in the global malaria reduction, the disease remains a challenge to the malaria endemic countries in Africa. Beyond the huge health consequence of malaria, policymakers need to be informed about the economic burden of the disease to the households. However, evidence on the economic burden of malaria in Ethiopia is scanty. The aims o...

privatization is one of the policies adopted by the governments all over the world for economic and administrative reforms. the main objectives for these reforms include the cost reduction and the productivity improvements, among others. this paper also studies the impact of privatization in the east azerbaijan's telecommunications company on its costs reduction. to that end, using mann whitney...