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Effets de revenu et offre de travail des médecins: résultats dérivés des opérations du système de seuils de revenus en usage en Ontario .
Author(s) -
Kantarevic Jasmin,
Kralj Boris,
Weinkauf Darrel
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00503.x
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , demographic economics , substitution effect , economics , inference , labour economics , public economics , business , psychology , microeconomics , philosophy , communication , epistemology
. 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 changes are small, but significant; (2) the income effect dominates the substitution effect only for a minority of services with relatively low prices and high volumes; and (3) the cross effects of fee changes tend to be significant only for services with relatively high prices and low volumes.