Income effects and physician labour supply: evidence from the threshold system in Ontario

We examine a reform to the physician threshold system in Ontario that provides a unique opportunity to assess the effect of fee changes on physician behaviour, free from the biases that potentially affect simple time-series or cross-section inference. We find that: (1) the income effects of fee chan...

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Volume:	41
Main Author:	Kantarevic, Jasmin Kralj, Boris Weinkauf, Darrel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing 01.11.2008 Blackwell Publishing Inc WILEY-BLACKWELL Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	The Canadian journal of economics Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 1262 - 1284
Data of publication:	November/novembre 2008
ISSN:	0008-4085 1540-5982
EISSN:	1540-5982
Discipline:	Economics
Bibliography:	jasmin_kantarevic@oma.org Kantarevic is also affiliated with IZA. We thank seminar participants at York and Wilfrid Laurier universities, and the 6th Annual Economics Research Symposium at the University of Saskatchewan for useful comments. We also thank John Barber for excellent research assistance. As usual, all errors are ours. Email
Subjects:	I18 I12 Control groups Labor supply Income estimates Physicians Billing Price elasticity Income effect Budget constraints Fees Health care economics Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences ECONOMETRICS REDUCTIONS RESPONSES IMPACT MULTIPLE PAYERS VOLUME MEDICARE BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2008 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS