In 1970 the USA spent 7% of its GNP on healthcare, in 200716%. Whereas the OECD average per capita expenditure on … healthcare in 2007 was $2,964, the USA spent $7,290. Yet in that same period, the health of America’s citizens relative to those … up around healthcare in the USA. Because the magnitude of the relative decline in healthcare in the USA is poorly …

by providing new evidence on employment embodied in value-added trade flows. Linking jobs data to the Trade in Value …-Added (TiVA) indicators first highlights that a large share of employment in OECD and key partner countries relies on consumption …. Within GVCs, there is also a shift from employment in core manufacturing activities to employment in service support …

higher level of income-employment situation. This opportunity comes in the middle stage of demographic transition when the …’s readiness in this aspect we must look at the issue of education, skill formation and employment among youth in India. In this …

This work assesses the impact of the minimum wage on youth employment, unemployment and education enrolment in Spain …. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we take advantage of the fact that the minimum wage for people aged 16 and 17 … years old, which was approximately two thirds the level of the standard minimum wage, was raised to reach full convergence …

This study provides circumstantial evidence for the impact of permits for employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor … that merges data from the Palestinian Labor Force Survey with Israeli administrative data on permits for employment in … Israel. The study quantifies the increase in Palestinian employment in the Israeli and Palestinian economies and the decrease …

Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining … equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage … differentials are coming down in terms of wage rates, they are increasing in terms of total earnings because of more than …

the new economy a trade-off is observed between women employment expansion and their wage condition. There also exists an … established sector where women have traditionally been accepted and are having stable employment and wage condition. In few … sunrise sectors of the new economy women are enjoying both expanding employment and improving wage conditions. Though …