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Removing Obstacles to Employment for Women in Ireland
Cournède, Boris - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
Women have contributed a great deal to Ireland's economic growth, including by joining the labour force in large numbers. The rise in female participation since 1990 has been amongst the strongest in the OECD, but from a low base. Female participation rates remain below the OECD average for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045645
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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert W.R.; Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045647
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Female Labour Force Participation: Past Trends and Main Determinants in OECD Countries
Jaumotte, Florence - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003
This paper examines the determinants of female labour force participation in OECD countries, including a number of policy instruments such as the tax treatment of second earners (relative to single individuals), childcare subsidies, child benefits, paid maternity and parental leaves, and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045809
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Cross-Country Analysis of Efficiency in OECD Health Care Sectors: Options for Research
Häkkinen, Unto; Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
A key policy challenge in most OECD countries is to improve outcomes of the health care system while containing its costs. Benchmarking countries and identifying best practices to enhance public spending cost-effectiveness would, in this regard, be a useful exercise. This paper presents three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045963
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Making Federalism Work in Italy
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
levels – and conversely, how much regional differentiation of services it will tolerate in pursuit of higher efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046053
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Linkages Between Performance and Institutions in the Primary and Secondary Education Sector
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert W.R. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
The efficiency of schools diverges dramatically across countries in the OECD and can also vary markedly within … countries. These differences in levels of efficiency can be traced to policy and institutional settings. As such, moving to best … relationship between institutional and policy settings and the efficiency of public spending on primary and secondary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046063
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Reforming Austria's Highly Regarded but Costly Health System
Gönenç, Rauf; Hofmarcher, Maria M.; Wörgötter, Andreas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
The highly regarded Austrian health system delivers good quality and easily accessible services, but is costly. Its governance and funding structure is highly fragmented and it makes too much use of inpatient care in hospitals. Entry and competition opportunities are de facto limited in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321197
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Sustaining the Momentum of Fiscal Reform in Hungary
Forthun, Colin; Hagemann, Robert P. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
public expenditure growth and improve public administration efficiency to reduce the public “footprint” on the economy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642473
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Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Institutions
Joumard, Isabelle; André, Christophe; Nicq, Chantal - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
raise health care spending efficiency.<P>Systèmes de santé : efficacité et institutions<BR>Ce document présente un ensemble …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458988
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The Performance of Road Transport Infrastructure and its Links to Policies
Braconier, Henrik; Pisu, Mauro; Bloch, Debra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport … framework is then used to analyse efficiency in 32 OECD countries. Data issues in terms of availability, quality and … evidence that social efficiency is low in a number of OECD countries. The low efficiency suggests that substantial room for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276835