BACKGROUND Since the site of human subjects research has public health, regulatory, ethical, economic, and social implications, we sought to determine the global distribution and migration of clinical research using an open-access trial registry. METHODS We obtained individual clinical trial data including location of trial sites, dates of operation, funding source (United States government, ...

Emigrants possess knowledge regarding the cultures and social environments of host and sending countries that can help strengthen the economic relationship between these countries. We find this to be true for Pakistan and its selected Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) trading partners on whom data are available. During the period 1990-2003, Pakistan had a positive tr...

The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990’s in all OECD countries. To accomplish this, we are the first to employ a comprehensive database of migrant stocks, grouped by education level and country of origin/destination, for the years 1990 and 2000. Due to the much...

We examine the allocation of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities across three sector groups, one that produces goods without home substitutes,and two others that have home substitutes but treated differently by welfare policy. We attribute the disparities to the countries’ tax and subsidy policies. High taxation substantially reduces hours in sec...

This paper explores the role of imports as a mechanism of transmission of international technological spillovers and the significance of these for the growth and economic convergence of the OECD countries. For this purpose a growth model is estimated that includes amongst its determinants a measure of the stock of technological knowledge. The results reveal first that international technologica...

The paper presents a monetary model of endogenous growth and specifies an econometric model consistent with it. The economic model suggests a negative inflation-growth effect, and one that is stronger at lower levels of inflation. Empirical evaluation of the model is based on a large panel of OECD and APEC member countries over the years 1961-1997. The hypothesized negative inflation effect is ...

85517 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format PUMA/RD(99)4/FINAL 2 This report and the related case studies are available on internet: http//:www.oecd.org/puma/ Disponible également en français sous le titre : L'Affectation des Responsabilités dans les Partenariats entre Niveaux d'Administration © OECD, 1999 Appli...

This paper proposes an alternative test of the monopolistic competition model of international trade that has an implication for the relationship between the volume of trade and similarity among trading countries in the size of the economy. In the existing literature the model’s implication has been tested for aggregate trade, which includes the sectors that are not characterized by product dif...