Joseph Schaafsma
Biographic Data
| ID | 6471060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Schaafsma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaafsma |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAAFSMA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Budgetary Implications of a Publicly Funded Medical Savings Account Plan
There is no consensus on whether a publicly funded medical savings account (MSA) program can generate net savings for government. We develop an analytical framework and demonstrate that the savings/cost implications of such a program depend critically on six factors: the size distribution of health-care expenditures, the MSA incentive effect, health-care expenditure expectations and whether they are fixed or flexible, the random incidence of illn…
Immigrant earnings
A correlation between age at immigration and earnings is observed in Canadian census data. The evidence supports three underlying sources of the effect; first, work experience in the source country yields virtually no return in the host country; second, the return to education varies with age at immigration, and, finally, an "acculturation" effect is observed for immigrants who are visible minorities or whose mother tongue is not English. Further…
The Karnofsky performance status scale re-examined
Background of Current Fiscal Problems
[Pensions and Inflation]
[Was the 1979 Federal Budget Deficit Too Large?]
Inflation and the Standard of Living of Pensioners
Those of us who have personal contacts with Canada's pensioners may be puzzled. On the one hand economic analysis suggests that the rapid inflation experienced during the last ten years or so should have imposed a particularly heavy financial burden on Canada's pensioners. On the other hand, we may know many pensioners who have been retired for some years, and whose current financial status doesn't appear to be worse than when they first retired.…
Was the 1979 Federal Budget Deficit Too Large
Inflation and the Standard of Living of Pensioners
Those of us who have personal contacts with Canada's pensioners may be puzzled. On the one hand economic analysis suggests that the rapid inflation experienced during the last ten years or so should have imposed a particularly heavy financial burden on Canada's pensioners. On the other hand, we may know many pensioners who have been retired for some years, and whose current financial status doesn't appear to be worse than when they first retired.…
Was the 1979 Federal Budget Deficit Too Large
[Was the 1979 Federal Budget Deficit Too Large?]
Inflation and the Standard of Living of Pensioners
Those of us who have personal contacts with Canada's pensioners may be puzzled. On the one hand economic analysis suggests that the rapid inflation experienced during the last ten years or so should have imposed a particularly heavy financial burden on Canada's pensioners. On the other hand, we may know many pensioners who have been retired for some years, and whose current financial status doesn't appear to be worse than when they first retired.…
Background of Current Fiscal Problems
[Pensions and Inflation]
The Karnofsky performance status scale re-examined
Immigrant earnings
A correlation between age at immigration and earnings is observed in Canadian census data. The evidence supports three underlying sources of the effect; first, work experience in the source country yields virtually no return in the host country; second, the return to education varies with age at immigration, and, finally, an "acculturation" effect is observed for immigrants who are visible minorities or whose mother tongue is not English. Further…
Budgetary Implications of a Publicly Funded Medical Savings Account Plan
There is no consensus on whether a publicly funded medical savings account (MSA) program can generate net savings for government. We develop an analytical framework and demonstrate that the savings/cost implications of such a program depend critically on six factors: the size distribution of health-care expenditures, the MSA incentive effect, health-care expenditure expectations and whether they are fixed or flexible, the random incidence of illn…
Economics (7 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works) · Deficit spending (2 works) · Federal budget (2 works) · Fiscal year (2 works) · Inflation (cosmology (2 works) · Keynesian economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)