Internationale Streikvergleiche weisen Deutschland als ein vergleichsweise konfliktarmes Land aus. Tatsächlich lag die Anzahl der je 1.000 Arbeitnehmer arbeitskampfbedingt ausgefallenen Arbeitstage im Zeitraum von 2000 bis 2007 bei nur fünf Tagen pro Jahr. Noch konfliktärmer waren von 20...

Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and...

For well over two decades, the OECD has developed and published a broad range of comparative indicators published yearly in the flagship publication Education at a Glance. These provide insights into the functioning of education systems, such as the participation and progress through education,...

This handbook is a practical manual on the design and implementation of business tendency surveys, which ask company managers about the current situation of their business and about their plans and expectations for the future. In this book, the OECD draws on over 20 years of experience to...

From a theoretical perspective, the output gap is probably the most comprehensive and convincing concept to describe the cyclical position of an economy. Unfortunately, for practical purposes, the concept depends on the determination of potential output, which is an inherently unobservable...