Victor R Fuchs
Biographic Data
| ID | 237374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor R Fuchs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor R |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuchs |
| SIGNATURE | FUCHS V R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ford Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The weaker sex? Vulnerable men and women’s resilience to socio-economic disadvantage
Sex differences in mortality vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival. Drawing on a wide swath of mortality data across countries and over time, we develop a set of empiric observations with which any theory about excess male morta…
The New Demographic Transition
The share of increases in life expectancy realized after age 65 was only about 20 percent at the beginning of the 20th century for the United States and 16 other countries at comparable stages of development; but that share was close to 80 percent by the dawn of the 21st century, and is almost certainly approaching 100 percent asymptotically. This new demographic transition portends a diminished survival effect on working life. For high-income co…
El futuro de la economía de la salud
Este artículo aborda la economía de la salud como una ciencia del comportamiento y como insumo para la política y la investigación en servicios de la salud. Ilustras este papel dual con datos sobre publicaciones y citas de dos importantes revistas de economía de la salud y de tres reconocidos economistas de la salud norteamericanos. Cinco tópicos en economía, importantes y relativamente nuevos, se recomiendan a economistas de la salud que se enfo…
Health, Government, and Irving Fisher
This paper provides a few historical notes on government involvement in health, followed by a summary of the theoretical arguments that economists offer in its support. Irving Fisher's views and recommendations about health are examined in the light of today's perceptions concerning health, health economics, and health policy. The wide variety of roles that the U.S. and other governments currently play in health is reviewed, and the ability of ec…
Medicare Reform
The “Medicare problem” is examined as part of the larger problem of providing for the overall financial needs of the elderly. Several myths about Medicare are discussed, and sources and uses of the elderly's “full income” are estimated. The paper explores policy options to deal with technology-induced increases in health care expenditures and excessive dependence of the elderly on transfers from the young. The paper concludes that if Americans wi…
Nobel Laureate
Gary S. Becker's career, personality, and contributions are reviewed and commented upon. Special note is taken of his seriousness of purpose, his willingness to take chances, and his persistence in the face of criticism and hostility. Becker's exceptional influence has taken several forms: enlargement of our understanding of traditional economic subjects such as labor economics, the opening up of new fields of research such as law and economics, …
Are Americans underinvesting in their children
Women's Quest for Economic Equality
Women's Quest for Economic Equality
Women's Quest for Economic Equality
The persistence of substantial gender inequality a quarter-century after the passage of major antidiscrimination legislation and several decades of massive social change poses a major problem for economic analysis and policy. Why are women at an economic disadvantage relative to men, and why is it so difficult for them to improve their relative position? The most popular answer-prejudice and exploitation by employers-is seriously incomplete. Ther…
Ethics and Economics in Search of a Common Language
Book reviewed in this article: The Needs of Strangers. By Michael Ignatieff. The Health Economy. By Victor Fuchs. Just Health Care. By Norman Daniels
How We Live
Losing Ground
How We Live
How We Live
How We Live
Economic Aspects of Health
Economic Growth and the Rise of Service Employment
The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises, and Industryts share rises to a peak at about $3,300 (1970 dollars) per capita and then declines. U.S. time series and OECD cross-sections follow almost identical patterns of employment change. The decline of Ag…
Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone
The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income level appears to be a major determinant of the propensity to live alone. The estimated cross-state equations track about three-quarters of the increase in…
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice
Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care
Journal Article Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care Get access Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care. Edited by V. R. Fuchs. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii + 239. £3.76.) N. Bosanquet N. Bosanquet King’s Fund College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 332, 1 December 1973, Pages 1334–1335, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Production and Productivity in the Service Industries
Differentials in Hourly Earnings by Region and City Size, 1959
Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34
Journal Article V. R. Fuchs. eds., Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34 Get access Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34. Edited by V. R. Fuchs. (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research (New York and London: Columbia University Press), 1969. Pp. ix + 395. 112s. 6s.) B. M. Deakin B. M. Deakin Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge.…
The Service Economy
Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone
The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income level appears to be a major determinant of the propensity to live alone. The estimated cross-state equations track about three-quarters of the increase in…
Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care
Journal Article Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care Get access Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care. Edited by V. R. Fuchs. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii + 239. £3.76.) N. Bosanquet N. Bosanquet King’s Fund College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 332, 1 December 1973, Pages 1334–1335, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
The New Demographic Transition
The share of increases in life expectancy realized after age 65 was only about 20 percent at the beginning of the 20th century for the United States and 16 other countries at comparable stages of development; but that share was close to 80 percent by the dawn of the 21st century, and is almost certainly approaching 100 percent asymptotically. This new demographic transition portends a diminished survival effect on working life. For high-income co…
Production and Productivity in the Service Industries
Changes in the Location of Manufacturing in the United States Since 1929
Women's Quest for Economic Equality
The persistence of substantial gender inequality a quarter-century after the passage of major antidiscrimination legislation and several decades of massive social change poses a major problem for economic analysis and policy. Why are women at an economic disadvantage relative to men, and why is it so difficult for them to improve their relative position? The most popular answer-prejudice and exploitation by employers-is seriously incomplete. Ther…
Statistical explanations of the relative shift of manufacturing among regions of the United States
A Geography of Manufacturing
Are Americans underinvesting in their children
How We Live
Economic Aspects of Health
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice
Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34
Journal Article V. R. Fuchs. eds., Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34 Get access Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34. Edited by V. R. Fuchs. (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research (New York and London: Columbia University Press), 1969. Pp. ix + 395. 112s. 6s.) B. M. Deakin B. M. Deakin Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge.…
Productivity Differences within the Service Sector
Productivity Trends in the Goods and Service Sectors, 1929-1961. A Preliminary Survey
Statistical Explanation of the Relative Shift of Manufacturing Among Regions of the United States
Competitive Structure and Inter-Industry Competition
Recent Trends in Southern Wage Differentials
A HIGH birth rate, a declining demand for labor in agriculture, and poor educational facilities have traditionally provided the South with a relatively large supply of untrained labor for manufacturing industries. This condition suggests the following hypotheses: i. Average wages in manufacturing will be relatively low in the South because the southern industrial structure will tend to be heavily weighted with low-wage (low-skilled) industries. 2…
The Determinants of the Redistribution of Manufacturing in the United States Since 1929
SINCE I929 there has been a substantial change in the location of manufacturing in the United States. The direction of redistribution has fairly consistently been from north to south and from east to west. In I929 the South and West together accounted for less than one out of every four United States manufacturing employees and for only one-fifth of value added by manufacture. By I958 1 their share of United States manufacturing had increased to …
Statistical explanations of the relative shift of manufacturing among regions of the United States
Statistical Explanation of the Relative Shift of Manufacturing Among Regions of the United States
Capital-Labor Substitution
Employer Concentration in Local Labor Markets . Robert L. Bunting
A Geography of Manufacturing
Changes in the Location of Manufacturing in the United States Since 1929
Changes in the Location of Manufacturing in the United States Since 1929
Productivity Trends in the Goods and Service Sectors, 1929-1961. A Preliminary Survey
Productivity Trends in the Goods and Service Sectors, 1929-1961
Productivity Differences within the Service Sector
Productivity Differences within the Service Sector
Production and Productivity in the Service Industries
Differentials in Hourly Earnings by Region and City Size, 1959
Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34
Journal Article V. R. Fuchs. eds., Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34 Get access Production and Productivity in the Service Industries. Studies in Income and Wealth No. 34. Edited by V. R. Fuchs. (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research (New York and London: Columbia University Press), 1969. Pp. ix + 395. 112s. 6s.) B. M. Deakin B. M. Deakin Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge.…
The Service Economy
Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care
Journal Article Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care Get access Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care. Edited by V. R. Fuchs. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii + 239. £3.76.) N. Bosanquet N. Bosanquet King’s Fund College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 332, 1 December 1973, Pages 1334–1335, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice
Economic Growth and the Rise of Service Employment
The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises, and Industryts share rises to a peak at about $3,300 (1970 dollars) per capita and then declines. U.S. time series and OECD cross-sections follow almost identical patterns of employment change. The decline of Ag…
Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone
The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income level appears to be a major determinant of the propensity to live alone. The estimated cross-state equations track about three-quarters of the increase in…
Economic Aspects of Health
How We Live
How We Live
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