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Comparative Analysis of Firm Demographics and Survival: Micro-Level Evidence for the OECD Countries
Bartelsman, Eric; Scarpetta, Stefano; Schivardi, Fabiano - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003
patterns of firm entry, exit, survival and employment growth are described and analysed across countries, sectors, and over … entry and exit rates are fairly similar across countries, while post entry performance differ markedly between Europe and … the US, a potential indication of the importance of barriers to firm growth as opposed to barriers to entry. Further, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045880
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276950
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens; Wise, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045937
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Public Sector Spending Efficiency in Estonia: Healthcare and Local Government
Smidova, Zuzana - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
The Estonian fiscal position is much better than in many OECD countries, the country stands out for having a rather lean government sector and the authorities are striving for efficient use of existing resources. Both healthcare and local government were particularly hit the by the decrease of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358636
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Improving China's Health Care System
Herd, Richard; Hu, Yu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the reduction in some traditional infectious diseases. However, death rates from chronic diseases have been on the rise, not least owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480476
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Improving the Efficiency of Health Care Spending: Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance
Erlandsen, Espen - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045946
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Dynamique des entreprises : l'entree et la sortie d'entreprises dans les provinces canadiennes, 2000 a 2009
Liu, Huju; Wang, Weimin; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2013
Le present document decrit les tendances de l'entree et de la sortie d'entreprises dans les provinces canadiennes, le lien entre ces tendances et les differences de structure industrielle, et la reaction de l'entree et de la sortie d'entreprises aux changements qui se produisent dans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003187
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Firm Dynamics: Firm Entry and Exit in the Canadian Provinces, 2000 to 2009
Liu, Huju; Wang, Weimin; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2013
This paper describes the patterns of firm entry and exit across provinces in Canada, the relationship of these patterns … to differences in industrial structure and the response of firm entry and exit to changes in the economic environment …. Firm entry and exit play an important role in shaping industrial structure and dynamics. Although entry and exit are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003194
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La distribution des taux de croissance de l?emploi au Canada : le role des entreprises a forte croissance et a reduction rapide des effectifs
Dixon, Jay; Rollin, Anne-Marie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
La presente etude s?appuie sur des donnees provenant de la base de donnees du Programme d?analyse longitudinale de l?emploi de Statistique Canada pour examiner la distribution des taux de croissance de l?emploi au Canada de 2000 a 2009, en se concentrant surtout sur les entreprises situees dans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003196
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The Distribution of Employment Growth Rates in Canada: The Role of High-Growth and Rapidly Shrinking Firms
Dixon, Jay; Rollin, Anne-Marie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
This paper uses data from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program database to study the distribution of annual employment growth rates in Canada over the 2000-to-2009 period, with a special emphasis on firms in the tails of the distribution, referred to here as High-Growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003216