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Immigrant Selection in the OECD* [PDF]
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012 AbstractIn this paper, we examine the determinants of educational selectivity in immigration using immigrant stock data for 70 source countries and 21 OECD destination countries, as observed in the year 2000/2001. We develop a variant of the Roy model to estimate the determinants of educational selectivity. Two key findings emerge. First, the effect of
Belot, Michèle, Hatton, Timothy
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Intereconomics, 1972 Just over 25 years ago, on the 5th June 1947, Secretary of State George C Marshall made a speech at Harvard initiating the plan for European recovery which was to bear his name. Its characteristic feature, and perhaps the key to its eventual success, was the active participation of the beneficiary countries: General Marshall's intention was that these ...
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Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011 This article examines the course of unemployment in OECD countries during the recent recession. The severity of the recession and the strength of macro policy responses varied from country to country. However, even after correcting for these differences, unemployment experiences were various. Unemployment generally rose by less in those countries which
Bruno Amable, Ken Mayhew
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Challenges in the Measurement of Public Sector Productivity in OECD Countries [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2017 Productivity is one of the main engines of economic growth. While most existing work on productivity has focused on the private sector, there is great value in better understanding productivity in the public sector, given government's important role in ...
Edwin Lau +2 more
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The Decoupling of Median Wages from Productivity in OECD Countries [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2017 Over the past two decades, aggregate labour productivity growth in most OECD countries has decoupled from real median compensation growth, implying that increasing productivity is no longer sufficient to raise real wages for the typical worker.
Cyrille Schwellnus +2 more
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JANIS: NEA JAva-based Nuclear Data Information System
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 JANIS (JAva-based Nuclear Data Information System) software is developed by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Data Bank to facilitate the visualization and manipulation of nuclear data, giving access to evaluated nuclear data libraries, such as ENDF ...
Soppera Nicolas +4 more
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Digitalization and Productivity: In Search of the Holy Grail - Firm-level Empirical Evidence from European Countries [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2019 This article assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts ...
Peter Gal +4 more
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Firm-level Productivity Differences: Insights from the OECD’s MultiProd Project [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2017 Productivity plays a central role in shaping the welfare of societies and the competitiveness of countries. Productivity differences, for instance, explain a large share of the differences in income per capita across countries.
Giuseppe Berlingieri +3 more
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Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tell Us
Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2014 As innovation increasingly fuels economic growth, higher education institutions and systems face the challenge of equipping students with the skills required by innovative economies.
Francesco Avvisati +2 more
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Recession and recovery in the OECD [PDF]
Economic & Labour Market Review, 2009 During the last year the global economy has experienced its most severe recession since the Great Depression. This article compares the UK experience with that of OECD member countries – a group of the major industrialised economies. While important economies such as Japan and Germany saw a larger fall in output, the depth of the UK recession was ...
Graeme Chamberlin, Linda Yueh
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