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adjustment and address long-term fiscal sustainability challenges. This could be done without significantly worsening income … efficiency without undermining the quality of in kind services on secondary education, health care and public administration … regressive. The delivery of health care could be improved by rationalising inpatient care and enhancing costeffective primary …
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Framework impact subjective well-being. The results show that income is an important determinant of subjective well-being. The … and those with access to health insurance have higher levels of subjective well-being. Time spent walking or exercising is … positively correlated with happiness, while working more than 50 hours per week or spending time on health-related activities is …
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technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth … have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported happiness increases with income, an issue particularly resonant in a … country with among the highest levels of income inequality in the OECD and a pattern of inequality that appears to be moving …
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involving private-sector job placement (the “Wisconsin” programme) and an earned-income tax credit. Also, there is increased …
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involving private-sector job placement (the “Wisconsin” programme) and an earned-income tax credit. Also, there is increased …
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pension funds were severely affected by the financial crisis. While health care spending drifted up further in the early part … growth. But, in countries hard hit by the crisis public outlays on health care declined considerably. Unemployment insurance …
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In 1994, the OECD published a set of recommendations -- known as the OECD Jobs Strategy -- to deal with high and persistent unemployment that affected many member countries. These recommendations are currently being reassessed by the OECD and this paper contributes to this process. It provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045890
This paper provides a synthesis of age-related developments and policies for a range of OECD countries, drawing on recent OECD work. It describes the expected impact of ageing on expenditure and fiscal pressures taking into account the current configuration of age-related policies. Since later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046013
This paper provides a synthesis of age-related developments and policies for a range of OECD countries, drawing on recent OECD work. It describes the expected impact of ageing on expenditure and fiscal pressures taking into account the current configuration of age-related policies. Since later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445184
In 1994, the OECD published a set of recommendations -- known as the OECD Jobs Strategy -- to deal with high and persistent unemployment that affected many member countries. These recommendations are currently being reassessed by the OECD and this paper contributes to this process. It provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446613