The interview guide was elaborated on the basis of the literature on physician economic behaviour, motivation, and coping strategies, and explored physicians' working time allocation across jobs, motivation and incentives, and perceptions of regulation of the profession.
Surveys were used to collect data from a representative sample of physicians working in the three capital cities on physician characteristics, their working time allocation, motivation to work in public and private sectors and perceptions of regulation.
To anticipate our results we observe that de jure employment regulations and perceptions of regulations vary significantly across developing and emerging economies and affect firm's behavior in terms of provision of training and use of temporary employment.
The latter is quite surprising, because WEF Hiring and Firing and the World Bank Rigidity Cost are supposed to measure very similar concepts, though the former measures perceptions of regulations, while the latter measures the strictness of the legal text.
Thus, perceptions of regulations are an important compliance factor.
When we use de jure regulations instead of the perception of regulations (Table 2), we find that EPL for regular contracts has a strong effect on firms' decision to provide training and make greater use of temporary employment.
Determining whether perceptions of the regulations, including whether the law is necessary and the intensity of agreement with the regulations, is an important factor for compliance is difficult in this study because all participants felt the Regulations are necessary and agree with the mandate of the NHPD.
This means that the reported perceptions of strictness of regulations may reflect these decisions, and hence the economic conjuncture, rather than the factual strictness of regulations.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coi.2013.02.010 The past few years have witnessed a change in our perception of immune regulation; shifting from a view that holds T cells at the centre of immune orchestration to one that encompasses the significant contribution made by the innate immune system and particularly the newly identified cytokine-producing innate lymphoid cells (ILCs).
The coding tree focused on the identification of key themes and categories on three main areas, namely: (a) characteristics of the market for private medical services, (b) current legislation, history, and perceptions of private sector regulation, and (c) physicians' motivations and incentives to work in the private and/or public sectors.
In order to explore CAM leaders' perceptions of the NHP regulations, interpretative content analysis was used to evaluate their responses to the semi-structured interview questions [ 23].
