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Healthy life expectancy: comparison of OECD countries in 2001
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2003 Objectives: To compare average levels of population health for Australia and other OECD countries in 2001. Methods: Healthy life expectancies (HALE) for OECD countries for 2001 are based on analysis of mortality data for OECD countries, country‐specific ...
Colin D. Mathers +7 more
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Inequality and Students’ PISA 2018 Performance: a Cross-Country Study
Comparative Economic Research, 2021 The aim of this paper was to investigate the relationship between countries’ PISA study results from 2018 and a set of indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index, along with ...
Jiri Mazurek +2 more
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Persistence of economic complexity in OECD countries
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2022 pre-print 518 ...
Solarin Adebola Sakiru +2 more
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An Empirical Analysis of Inflation in OECD Countries [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 AbstractDuring the 1990s, many OECD countries had declining rates of inflation while their unemployment rates were also falling, something that on the surface seemed at odds with the Phillips curve relationship between inflation and unemployment. For the USA, these seemingly contradictory developments have been reconciled in terms of two factors: (1 ...
Jane E. Ihrig, Jaime R. Marquez
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Multivariate analysis of post-transition OECD countries in the context of inequality measures
Croatian Operational Research Review, 2023 The aim of this paper is to classify the post-transition OECD countries according to the Gini coefficient for income inequality, the S80/S20 ratio, the income share of the bottom 40% of the population, educational attainment – tertiary education, and ...
Tomislav Korotaj +2 more
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The Welfare Cost of Inflation in OECD Countries
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 The welfare cost of anticipated inflation is quantified in a matching model of money calibrated to 23 different OECD countries for several sample periods. In most economies, in the common period 1978–1998, a representative agent would give up only a fraction of 1% of consumption to avoid 10% inflation.
Boel, Paola, Camera, Gabriele
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The Decline of Schooling Productivity in OECD Countries [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 2001 Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD countries the price of schooling has increased faster in 1970-94 than would be compatible with constant schooling ...
Erich Gundlach +2 more
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An Introduction to the Economics of Immigration in OECD Countries [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 AbstractThe share of the foreign‐born population in member countries of the OECD is increasing, and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labour market issues, fiscal questions, the political economy of immigration, and productivity and international trade.
Edo, Anthony +5 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden +5 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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