Regional Mortality Disparities in Germany: Long-Term Dynamics and Possible Determinants.

Regional Mortality Disparities in Germany

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the re-emergence of stark differences between eastern and western Germany after 1970, which have almost disappeared again in the decades after the reunificatio...

Notes About Comparing Long-term Care Expenditures Across Countries; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The comparison of long-term care (LTC) expenditures is a difficult task. National LTC systems differ widely in terms of eligibility criteria, level of benefits, institutional variety and regional heterogeneity. In this commentary I will first give some general remarks on cross country comparisons. Then I discuss the role of the informal sector which is the most importan...

Regional Disparities in Determinants of Industrial Firms Success: The Case of Abbasabad and Shamsabad Industrial Towns in Tehran

Industrical Parks are a good way of promoting  small and medium sized manufacturing firms, as they provide the basic infrustuctures in the locations where such activities are desired. Here, among the factors affecting firm performance, location is regarded as the most influential one. In this respect, the location of industrial towns can be considered as a factor that influences a firm’s perfor...

Trade, Migration and Regional Unemployment

A by now large literature in regional economics has greatly improved our understanding of the determinants of the observed spatial disparities in productivity. However, this literature neglects what seems to be a robust and persistent fact accompanying regional productivity differences: high productivity regions also have lower unemployment than low productivity regions. In this paper, we set o...

Health Care Analysis And Regional Disparities In Different Provinces Of Iran