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- Andersson, Tommy, et al.
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Multiple Pricing for Personal Assistance Services
- 2022
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper provides a general theoretical framework that captures the essential features ofa Swedish reform where private and public health care providers serve patients with certainfunctional impairments. Because providers receive a fixed hourly compensation for theirservices (identical across patient types) and only private providers can reject service requestsfrom patients, private providers avoid the costliest patients, resulting in a monetary deficitfor public providers. To partially overcome this problem, a multiple pricing (reimbursement)scheme is proposed and its solution is characterized. The results suggest that there are somefundamental trade-offs, e.g., between the goals of containing costs and restricting choicesfor patients, but that the suggested pricing scheme may substantially reduce the deficits forpublic providers without affecting the total budget set by the central government.
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- Nordström, Maria, et al.
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The complexity of value of travel time for self-driving vehicles – a morphological analysis
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Understanding the value of travel time for mobility concepts based on self-driving vehicles is crucial to accurately value transport investments and predict future travel patterns. In this paper, we carry out a morphological analysis to illustrate the diversity of mobility concepts based on self-driving vehicles and the complexity of determining the value of travel time for such concepts. In the analysis, we consider four categories of parameters: (i) vehicle characteristics such as automation level, form, capacity, operating speed, interior design focus, (ii) operating principles such as vehicle ownership model, service model, operating model, (iii) journey characteristics such as access and/or waiting time, travel conditions, reliability and variability and (iv) traveler characteristics such as risk perception and perceived safety. The identified parameters and parameter attributes result in a morphological matrix that spans all possible alternative solutions. Out of these, we have selected five plausible, logically consistent solutions, aligned with current literature on possible SDV-based mobility concepts, and analyzed them based on the implications of the concept characteristics on the total value of travel time. We conclude by suggesting an alternative approach to differentiate value of travel time based on travel concepts characteristics rather than the usual decomposition into transport modes.
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- Svensson, Måns, et al.
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Migrant Agricultural Workers and Their Socio-‐economic, Occupational and Health Conditions– A Literature Review
- 2013
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Objective This study provides the summary of current knowledge about migrant work in agriculture available from journal articles, books, reports and other relevant academic publications, focusing on political, economic, legal, social and medical aspects of migrant work in agriculture. Methods A systematic search was carried out on the LibHub and Google Scholar databases in order to compile the existing peer-reviewed publications, research reports, and policy papers concerning migrant work in agriculture. The literatures was selected through the following process: (1) reading the title and abstract in English for the period 1960 – 2011; (2) reading the entire text of selected articles; (3) making a manual search of the relevant quotations in the selected articles; (4) eliminating articles without a focus on migrant populations and the themes of central interest, and then reading and analyzing the definitive set of articles. Results In spite of their varying geographical focus, scope, unit of analysis and settings, most of the studies reviewed highlighted that migrant farmworkers work under very poor working conditions and face numerous health and safety hazards, including occupational chemical and ergonomic exposures, various injuries and illnesses and even death, discrimination and social exclusion, poor pay and long working hours, and language and cultural barriers. Many studies also reported poor enforcement of labour regulations and a lack of health and safety training on the farms, difficulty accessing medical care and compensation when injured or ill. Conclusions The studies have also pointed out the lack of research in relation to labour, health, psychosocial, and wage conditions of migrant farmworkers. The accumulated results of the study indicate that the issues and problems migrant farmworkers face are multidimensional, and there is a need for both policy development and further research in order to address migrant workers’ problems.
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- Thami, Prakriti, et al.
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Multiple Pricing for Personal Assistance Services
- 2024
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Ingår i: SSRN Electronic Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 1556-5068.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper provides a general theoretical framework that captures the essential features of a Swedish reform where private and public health care providers serve patients with certain functional impairments. Because providers receive a fixed hourly compensation for their services (identical across patient types) and only private providers can reject service requests from patients, private providers avoid the costliest patients, resulting in a monetary deficit for public providers. To partially overcome this problem, a multiple pricing (reimbursement) scheme is proposed and its solution is characterized. The results suggest that there are some fundamental trade-offs, e.g., between the goals of containing costs and restricting choices for patients, but that the suggested pricing scheme may substantially reduce the deficits for public providers without affecting the total budget set by the central government
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