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What drives the performance of Swedish lower secondary schools?

André, Christophe; Pareliussen, Jon; Hwang, Hyunjeong - 2019

This paper presents the econometric analysis of lower secondary school performance carried out for the chapter on education of the 2019 OECD Economic Survey of Sweden. The dataset covers most Swedish schools providing education for 9th graders. Student socio-economic background has a...

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Drivers of farm performance : empirical country case studies

Sauer, Johannes; Moreddu, Catherine - 2020

This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and through annual rates of technical change. Evidence on...

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Boosting productivity in the United Kingdom's service sectors

Mourougane, Annabelle; Kim, Eun Jung - 2020

The United Kingdom has been among the most affected OECD economies by the COVID-19 crisis, reflecting the high share of services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently underperformed relative to expectations and was more...

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What drives firm and sectoral productivity in the United Kingdom and in selected European countries?

Kim, Eun Jung; Mourougane, Annabelle; Baker, Mark - 2020

This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United Kingdom and selected European countries using both firm-level and sectoral data. Barriers to trade and investment appear to be a robust determinant of productivity in the long term....

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The effect of public sector efficiency on firm-level productivity growth : the Italian case

Fadic, Milenko; Garda, Paula; Pisu, Mauro - 2019

This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … purpose, we combine newly available data from Italy on public administration efficiency of subnational governments with geo … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …

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Efficiency estimates of health care systems

Medeiros, João; Schwierz, Christoph - 2015

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Current account benchmarks for Turkey

Röhn, Oliver - 2012

Turkey’s current account deficit widened to almost 10% of GDP in 2011 and has been narrowing only gradually since. An important question is to what extent Turkey’s current account deficit is excessive. To explore this issue, one needs to establish benchmarks. In this paper current account...

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Environmental policies and productivity growth : a critical review of empirical findings

Koźluk, Tomasz; Zipperer, Vera - 2013

The economic effects of environmental policies are of central interest to policymakers. The traditional approach sees environmental policies as a burden on economic activity, at least in the short to medium term, as they raise costs without increasing output and restrict the set of production...

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Productivity measurement with natural capital

Brandt, Nicola; Schreyer, Paul; Zipperer, Vera - 2013

Traditional measures of multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth generally do not recognise natural capital as inputs into the production process. Since productivity growth is measured as the residual between output and input growth, it will pick up the growth in unmeasured inputs, which can lead...

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Measuring total factor productivity at the firm level using OECD-ORBIS

Gál, Peter - 2013

Recent OECD research has utilised harmonised cross-country firm level data to explore the contribution of public policies to cross-country differences in productivity, innovation and resource allocation. This paper describes the steps taken to and the trade-offs involved in constructing...

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