Tor Helge Holmås

Associate Professor UiB/Tor Helge HolmåsAssociated Researcher

E-mail:            TorHelge.Holmas@snf.no
Phone:            +47 55 95 97 79
Academic title: Dr. polit.

 

Pågående prosjekter

  • Cooperation in the health care sector
  • Er legemidler billigere i Norge? Sammenligning av priser på legemidler mellom Norge og Vest-Europa for perioden 2007 - 2009
  • Betydningen av sosioøkonomiske faktorer for tilbud og bruk av kommunale omsorgstjenester
  • Health, work and society, multi-disciplinary studies of determinants of sickness absence and disability
  • Helseøkonomi Bergen (HEB)

Utvalgte publikasjoner

International publications

  • Prioritization and patients’ rights: Analysing the effect of a reform in the Norwegian hospital sector. Forthcoming Social Science & Medicine. (With Jan Erik Askildsen and Oddvar Kaarbøe).
  • Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay. Forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. (with Egil Kjerstad, Hilde Lurås and Odd Rune Straume)
  • Does variation in general practitioner (GP) practice matter for length of sick leave? A multilevel analysis based on Norwegian Gp-patient data. Forthcoming Social Science & Medicine. (With Arild Aakvik and Kamrul Islam)
  • Regulation and Pricing of Pharmaceuticals: Reference Pricing or Price Cap Regulation, European Economic Review, 53 (2009) 170-185(with Burt Brekke and Astrid Grasdal)
  • Access to Primary Health Care and Health Outcomes: The Relationships between GP Characteristics and Mortality Rates. Journal of Health Economics, 25, 1139-1153, 2006. (With A. Aakvik)
  • A panel data study of physicians' labor supply: The case of Norway. Health Economics, 14 (10), 2005, 1035-1045. (With Badi H. Baltagi and Espen Bratberg.)
  • Assessing the effects of an early retirement program. Journal of Population Economics, 17(3), 2004, 387 - 408. (With Espen Bratberg and Øystein Thøgersen.)
  • Wage policy in the health care sector: a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply. Health Economics, 12, 2003, 705-719. (With Jan Erik Askildsen and Badi H. Baltagi).
  • A Low-Key Social Insurance Reform – Effects of Multidisciplinary Outpatient Treatment for Back Pain Patients in Norway, Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 22 (2003), 747-762. (With Arild Aakvik and Egil Kjerstad). 
  • Keeping nurses at work: a duration analysis. Health Economics, 11, 2002, 493-503.

Publications in Norwegian 

  • Helsepersonell og lønnspolitikk. Økonomisk forum, 57(9),30-36, 2003. (Med Jan Erik Askildsen)
  • Arbeidsmarkedet for helsepersonell i Norge: Hvor blir det av sykepleierne? I Askildsen og Haug Helse, økonomi og politikk. Cappelen Akademiske Forlag, 2000 (Med Jan Erik Askildsen).
  • Bør kommuner kjøpe helseforsikring. Økonomisk forum, 60(9),9-16, 2006. (Med Jan Erik Askildsen and Lene Nordanger).
  • Hvordan måle prioriteringer i helsesektoren. Samfunnsøkonomen, 62(3), 19-27, 2008. (Med Jan Erik Askildsen and Oddvar Kaarbøe)
  • Påvirker det kommunal pleie- og omsorgstilbudet liggetidene i sykehus? I Haug, Kaarbøe og Olsen Et helsevesen uten grenser? Cappelen Akademiske Forlag, 2009 (Med Egil Kjerstad).
  • Prioritering i helsesektoren. I Haug, Kaarbøe og Olsen Et helsevesen uten grenser? Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2009. (Med Jan Erik Askildsen og Oddvar Kaarbøe).

Work in progress 

  • Monitoring Prioritization in a Public Health Care Sector. (With Jan Erik Askildsen and Oddvar Karbøe).
  • Regulation, generic competition and pharmaceutical prices: theory and evidence from a natural experiment.  (With Kurt Brekke and Odd Rune Straume).
  • Teachers' Sickness Absence in Primary Schools: A Panel Data Multilevel Analysis. (With Espen Bratberg, Kamrul Islam and Kjell Vaage).
  • Wages and Work Conditions as Determinants for Physicians' Work Decisions. (with Jan Erik Askildsen).
  • Margins and Market Shares: Pharmacy Incentives for Generic Substitution. (With Kurt Brekke og Odd Rune Straume)
  • Attitudes towards sickness absence in the Nordic countries (with Svenn-Åge Dahl and Frode Skjeret).
  • Socio-economic differences in treatment intensity in GP practise (Med Roar Gjeldsvik og Karin Monstad).