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Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …
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This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
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. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising … controls over immigration or capital movements, or trade policy. Australia did, and after 1900 pursued an increasingly …
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vulnerability, drawing lessons from a detailed comparison of the response of Chile and Australia to recent external shocks and from … Australia's historical experience. We argue that in order to understand sudden stops and the mechanisms to smooth them, it is …
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Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Each of the three countries uses the Supply and Use framework (variant of Input Output … "production" approach inherent in the Supply and Use framework. In Australia and United Kingdom, the supply and use framework is …
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The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different … goods and services and of gross fixed capital formation. Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India … higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India. We also find that China usually has a lower CV, namely a more stable …
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … India. When capital and labor are hypothetically reallocated to equalize marginal products to the extent observed in the U ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India …
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