This paper examines the extents and determinants of intra-industry textile and clothing trade for the OECD countries. Trade overlap is used as the measurement of intra-industry trade (IIT). The general trend of intra-OECD trade and the extents of IIT for textile and clothing trade in year 2000 were examined. Hypotheses relating to 5 country-specific variables tested showed strong significance r...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tracks and reports annually on more than 1,200 health system measures across 30 industrialized countries, ranging from population health status and nonmedical determinants of health to health care resources and utilization. Based on analysis of OECD health data from 2008, the United States continues to differ markedly from other c...

Mancur Olson’s institutional sclerosis hypothesis may be evident in the effects of interest groups on investment in physical capital. To test this proposition, we use cross sectional data on 42 countries for which information on the number of interest groups is available to estimate the effect of those groups on the share of GDP that goes into physical investment. The results indicate that inte...

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: − to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...

• Behavioural factors, such as prevalence of smoking and obesity, are key determinants of health status and have an impact on the health of individuals now and into the future. Compared with other countries, Canada has made significant progress in reducing the prevalence of smoking, having one of the lowest rates among countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEC...

As a form of social security, means-tested social assistance has acquired an increasing importance in the comparative literature on welfare states. Although there is a growing number of international and comparative studies of East Asian social policy, relatively little attention has been paid to social assistance schemes in this region. This paper makes an effort to step into some of the gaps....

Using panel data for 24 (OECD) countries during the period 1980–2004 this study examines how social trust affects fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in fertility by 0.01 points. The results presented here suggest that in developed countries, trust underlies the d...

Banking regulation and supervision were designed to protect banks from failure, but this did not avoid the large number of banking crises recently experienced by OECD countries. Using binary response models for panel data and centering on OECD countries, this paper emphasizes the poor influence of regulation and supervision on banks’ soundness and presents the main determinants of banking crise...