We propose a simple modification to the general-to-specific lag-length selection method typically employed in a standard augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test and apply it to examine the stationarity of OECD countries’ inflation rates. Instead of using the entire set of lags selected by the general-to-specific method, we suggest using only the lags that are statistically significant. Our Monte Car...

Table 1 Centenarians Rates in 32 OECD Countries OECD Countries Centenarians Aged 50-54 CR (50–54) 2011 (A) 1961 (B) (A/B) * 10,000 Japan 49,457 4,235,088 116.78 Canada 6,030 860,932 70.04 After publication of the original article [1], the author noted that several of the figures in Table two (Table 1 here) were incorrect. The corrected table is reproduced here. We apologize for any confusion th...

OBJECTIVE To review and update the conceptual framework, indicator content and research priorities of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) project, after a decade of collaborative work. DESIGN A structured assessment was carried out using a modified Delphi approach, followed by a consensus meeting, to assess the suite of HCQI...

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet, empirical analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock estimates are available. Building on a new database that provides internationally comparable capital stock estimates, this paper estimates the dynamic effects ...

This research examines whether technology transfer, research intensity, educational attainment and the ability to absorb foreign technology help explain cross-country differences in productivity growth. Our data comprise a panel of 55 countries including 23 OECD and 32 developing economies over the period 1970-2004. The results show that TFP growth in both OECD and developing countries is posit...

We examine the distribution of hours of work across 2-digit industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities when sectors are divided into three types: health and social work, a group that produces goods with home substitutes and all others. We attribute the disparities to the different tax and subsidy policies that countries follow, in a nested CES preference structure with home...

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible projection parameters, school imp...

Kamusal mal ve hizmetlerin yerel düzeyde sunulmasının ekonomik etkinlik sosyal refah düzeyini artıracağı düşüncesiyle birlikte birçok ülkede yönetimlerin fonksiyonlarını artırmaya yönelik çalışmalar gerçekleştirilmektedir. Bu araştırmada gelir, alan büyüklüğü, nüfus, kentleşme, etnik çeşitlilik, insani gelişme, küreselleşme, kurumsal faktörler, gelir dağılımı, istikrar katılımcı bütçelemenin ma...

This article investigates the links between earnings, human capital and job tasks, using internationally comparable information from OECD Survey of Adult Skills. The authors use theoretical framework developed by Autor Handel (2013) extend their empirical results to 21 countries. data allow for a richer characterization workers' including both educational attainment measure cognitive skills. Th...