This article presents data on health care spending for 30 OECD countries from OECD Health Data 2003, the latest edition of OECD's annual data collection on health systems across industrialized countries. OECD data show health care expenditures as a proportion of gross domestic product at an all-time high, due to both increased expenditures and overall economic slow-down. The article discusses s...

I use bilateral import data to test for the role of trade costs and asset market frictions in impeding international consumption risk sharing. Trade costs play a significant role. I do not reject the null of optimal risk sharing within OECD countries, though I do reject for the world as a whole. I calculate the impact on ex-post welfare of moving from historical asset market frictions to optima...

Energy is considered as a critical factor for supporting Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries’ economic growth. However, little known about OECD-based energy firms’ capital structure determinants. Hence, this investigation an effort to explore the determinants OECD firms. In context, 18 key countries 43 firms are selected. The balanced panel data sample set of 14 years from 20...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a reliable source of international data on various areas of economic and social well-being, including health care. It collects data for indicators of quality of care for more than 30 countries. These indicators are used in this report to provide an in-depth look at Canada’s health system compared with health systems in other O...

BACKGROUND Disability either due to illness, aging, or both causes remains an essential contributor shaping European labor markets. Ability of modern day welfare states to compensate an impaired work ability and absenteeism arising from incapacity is very diverse. The aims of this study were to establish and explain intercountry differences among selected European OECD countries and to provide ...

The article is based on a multidimensional conception of healthcare system performance. Our objectives are to assess the performance of the healthcare systems of 27 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and to discern the countries' profiles according to the homogeneity of their healthcare systems' levels of performance. The analyses were carried out on data co...

The agriculture directorate is using a modified version of the GTAP model to analyse the impact of agriculture and non-agriculture reform. This analysis is part of an overall project that analyses policy reform using a "top-down" approach that integrating a variety of modeling techniques. Global and regional analysis is carried out using general equilibrium (modified GTAP), while at the other e...

The purpose of the paper is to review some previous research examining ICT efficiency and the impact of ICT on educational output/outcome as well as different conceptual and methodological issues related to performance measurement. Moreover, a definition, measurements and the empirical application of a model measuring the efficiency of ICT use and its impact at national levels will be considere...

Motivation. Mobility of highly skilled workers has increased substantially since the 1990s. This increased mobility has a major impact on science and technology across the world (OECD, 2001; OECD, 2008) and is considered a central element in contemporary globalization (OECD, 2008; Docquier & Rapoport, 2012). The mobility of human capital is particularly important not only for the explicit shari...