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Reducing poverty and social disparities in Lithuania
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2020
. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … population groups with the elderly, people with disabilities, lone parents, the low-educated and the unemployed being …
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Harmonization issues in unit costing of service use for multi-country, multi-sectoral health economic evaluations : a scoping review
Fischer, Claudia; Mayer, Susanne; Perić, Nataša; … - In: Health economics review 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-13
Background: Valuation is a critical part of the costing process in health economic evaluations. However, an overview of specific issues relevant to the European context on harmonizing methodological requirements for the valuation of costs to be used in health economic evaluation is lacking. We...
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Making the most of skills in Denmark
Jamet, Stéphanie; Koen, Vincent - 2014
Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. Sluggish productivity growth over the past two decades raises the...
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Structural reforms to reduce unemployment and restore competitiveness in Ireland
Pina, Álvaro Manuel - 2011
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Regional differences in health care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Germany
Lange, Ansgar; Prenzler, Anne; Bachmann, Frank Oliver; … - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 29, pp. 1-11
Background: The regional availability of specialized physicians is an important aspect in healthcare of patients with IBD. The association between physician density and healthcare is not yet clear. Most studies did not consider district type, which reflects population density. Our research...
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The drivers of public health spending : integrating policies and institutions
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo; … - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of policies and institutions on health expenditures for a large panel of OECD countries for the period 2000-10. We use a set of 20 policy and institutional indicators developed by the OECD characterising the main supply-side, demand-side, and public management,...
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No theory : an explanation of the lack of consistency in cross-country health care comparisons using non-parametric estimators
Gearhart, Richard - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 40, pp. 1-12
Since 2000 several papers have examined the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems worldwide. These papers have extended the literature using drastically different input and output combinations from one another, with little theoretical or empirical support backing these specifications. Issues...
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The Dutch labour market : preparing for the future
Gerritsen, Mathijs; Høj, Jens - 2013
high overall participation rate, due to a high frequency of part-time employment, a low effective retirement age and a high … Netherlands (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/netherlands …
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Boosting skills for all in the Netherlands
Kierzenkowski, Rafał; Paciorek, Aleksandra; Fulop, Gabor - 2016
Strong and adequate skills are essential to support workers’ productivity and to ensure robust employment outcomes … inclusive. The Netherlands performs well in terms of competences of a large part of the population. Moreover, the country has …
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Making employment more inclusive in the Netherlands
Baker, Mark; Gielens, Lindy - 2018
-standard forms of work have expanded with a strong trend towards self-employment and an increased reliance on temporary contracts … protection on permanent employment contracts and through a more targeted approach to activation policies for disadvantaged groups … jobs. This Working Paper relates to the 2018 OECD Economic Survey of the Netherlands 2018 (www …
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