This report presents the conclusions from a seminar on families and childcare services held in Ankara, Turkey, on 5 June 2008. The seminar was organised by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), in cooperation with the Turkish Ministry of Labour...

We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub-indicators, for 23 industrialised countries. The first four sub-indicators are u0093opportunityu0094 indicators that take into account administrative, education and health outcomes...

A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset markets and a low price elasticity of tradables can account...

The paper extends the standard intertemporal model of the current account to include two important stylised facts: (1) the persistence of current account positions and (2) the relevance of the fiscal balance. Specifically, the paper derives a closed form solution for consumption in the presence...

We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...

Diese zwischen Oktober 99 und März 2000 durchgeführte Umfrage stellt die Maßnahmen und Strategien vor, die von den Regierungen der fünfzehn Mitgliedstaaten durchgeführt wurden, um jedem Menschen, ob jung oder alt, die Möglichkeit zu geben, ein ganzes Leben lang zu lernen. Nach einem...

The objective of this study is to contribute to the gathering of data available on womens participation in lifelong learning and to make recommendations concerning non-academic lifelong learning, in particular adult education, for women. The relationship of learning for access to, and promotion...