Human Resource Economics

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Browsing Human Resource Economics by Author "Bedri, Abdulhamid (Dr)"

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    Demand for Public and Private Health Care Services in Addis Ababa
    (A.A.U, 2006-07) Hailegiorgis, Samuel; Bedri, Abdulhamid (Dr)
    The study is ill tended to investigate the factors that influence the demand for private and public health services ill Addis Ababa. It is undertaken with the view of adding to the existing meager research ill the area. It used the Welfare Monitoring Data 2004 collected by The Central Statistical Authority of Ethiopia. It adopted the multinomial logiest regression to measure the significance of the different individual, household and structural and supplier variables ill the demand for health services. Both the descriptive and the econometric analysis revealed different individual, household and structural vandals do affect the demand for hearth services from both types of providers. one profound result of the study is that still the majority of the residents of Addis Ababa cannot pay for health care and hence the cost recovery scheme in the case of public health provision should be revisited. Further the importance individuals attach to quality in all types of providers should urge the government as well as private providers to give sufficient attention to quality considerations.
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    Determinants of Internal and out Migration of Physicians from the Public Health
    (A.A.U, 2008-10) Tefera, Biruke; Bedri, Abdulhamid (Dr)
    Physicians are key personnel in the health care system. Currently there is a worldwide shortage of health workers, particularly physicians. In some countries this shortage of physicians is aggravated by migration. Ethiopia is one of those countries who face severe shortage of physicians. With the advent of private health sectors, the movement and migration of physicians From public to private sector becomes a common phenomenon. Moreover, there is a mass exodus of physicians outside Ethiopia. Because of these internal and external migrations of physicians, the service delivery of the public sector is highly affected. But this phenomenon is given little attention. The objective of this study is to find out the root causes of migration and its impact on service delivery. To do this research both primary and secondary source of data were used. Descriptive and econometric techniques had been employed for analysis. A pro bit estimation was used to analyze the determinants of migrate on. The findings of the study show that low salary and remuneration, unavailability of drugs, lack of professional resources and poor quality of management were the major push factors for internal migration. The significant pull factors for internal migration were found to be the opposite of push factors of internal migration. Concerning out-migration the study revealed that low salary, lack of incentives, poor quality of management, and feeling de-motivated by poor health care infrastructure, resources and facilities were the main endogenous push factors. From endogenous pull factors better salary, provision of different incentives, better opportunity and quality of education; and sophisticated health facilities, in Infrastructure and resources were found to be the most important attracting factors. Low quality of life in Ethiopia and political repression were found to be the most significant exogenous push factors of migration. The opposite of these factors were found to be the most influential exogenous pull factors.
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    Human Resource Development and Economic Growth in Ethiopia
    (A.A.U, 1997-06) Walelign, Netsanet; Bedri, Abdulhamid (Dr)
    Human resources development has long been considered an important factor in economic growth. This study examines the contribution of human resources in Ethiopia's economic growth. This is accomplished by entering education and nutrition (as proxies for human resources development) apart from physical capital and labor in the growth equation by taking the 28 years time period from 1967/68 to 1994/95. A long run static and a short run dynamic (error correction) models are employed to observe the contribution of human resources. The results obtained indicate that in the period under reference education enters positively and significantly whereas nutrition enters positively but insignificantly in explaining the growth in output.