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Understanding Inequality Within a Personalised System of Disability Support: Australian Children With Disabilities' Unmet Support Needs

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why do OECD Countries Trade More? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Ineffective institutions increase transaction costs and reduce trade. This paper shows that differences in the effectiveness of institutions offer an explanation for the tendency of OECD countries to trade disproportionately with each other, and with non-OECD countries.
Henri L.F. de Groot   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Influence of Labour Market Institutions on the Disemployment Effects of the Minimum Wage [PDF]

open access: yes
Mindestlohn, Beschäftigungseffekt, Arbeitsmarkt, OECD-Staaten, Minimum wage, Employment effect, Labour market, OECD ...
David Neumark, William Wascher
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The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Workforce in Early Childhood Education: Findings From a National Survey of Australian Centre‐Based Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Okun’s Law and Long Term Co-Integration Analysis for OECD Countries (1987-2012)

open access: yesEmerging Markets Journal, 2016
Even though, there are so many so long discussions on the relation between population increase and economic growth, today, general opinion tends to believe that there is a direct relation between population increase and economic growth.
Bilal Kargı
doaj   +1 more source

Causality between Energy Consumption and GDP: Evidence from 30 OECD and 78 Non-OECD Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
Energy arguably plays a vital role in economic development. Hence many studies have attempted to test for causality between energy and economic growth; however, no consensus has emerged.
Jaruwan Chontanawat   +2 more
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Hidden in the Labour Market: An Intersectional Latent Class Analysis of Discouraged Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
wiley   +1 more source

Convergence and determinants of health expenditures in OECD countries

open access: yesHealth Economics Review, 2017
This study examines the trend and determinants of health expenditures in OECD countries over the 1975-2004 period. Based on recent developments in the economic growth literature we propose and test the hypothesis that health care expenditures in ...
Son Hong Nghiem, Luke Brian Connelly
doaj   +1 more source

Barriers to competition in Croatia : the role of government regulation [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines product market policies in Croatia by benchmarking them to OECD countries and highlighting how policies that are more conducive to competition would stimulate a more efficient allocation of resources and, in consequence, facilitate ...
Boromisa, Ana-Maria   +3 more
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