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Assessing the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia with data envelopment analysis

Hribernik, Matevz; Kierzenkowski, Rafał - 2013

This paper derives estimates of the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia and the other OECD countries from data envelopment analysis based on model specifications used in earlier OECD studies. Results suggest that Slovenia ranks about 25th among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a...

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Occupational licensing and job mobility in the United States

Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2019

empirical analysis exploits variation in licensing regulation across states and industries and constructs indicators for both … the share of employment subject to licensing (the extensive margin) and the strictness of regulation (the intensive margin … with more extensive and stricter licensing regulation. The results from the analysis of earnings are generally mixed and …

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Estimating ad valorem equivalents of non-tariff measures : combining price-based and quantity-based approaches

Cadot, Olivier; Gourdon, Julien; Tongeren, Frank W. van - 2018

A novel econometric method is used to estimate trade effects of non-tariff measures (NTMs) for roughly 5 000 traded goods and 80 countries. It explicitly distinguishes several types of measures and ascertains their distinct effects on trade volumes and prices. The latter feature allows...

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Public policy and resource allocation : evidence from firms in OECD countries

Andrews, Dan; Cingano, Federico - 2012

The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we examine the extent to which regulations affecting...

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Anti-competitive and regulatory barriers in the United States labour market

Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2020

Occupational licensing and non-competition agreements are two important types of labour market regulation in the United … States, both covering around one fifth of all workers. While some regulation is needed to protect safety and ensure quality … these barriers. The States are mainly responsible for labour market regulation and the variation across States is similar to …

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Aggregate multi-factor productivity : measurement issues in OECD countries

Égert, Balázs - 2017

This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity (MFP) is sensitive to alternative parameterisations. The starting point is the definition of MFP used in previous work in the OECD’s Economics Department (e.g. Johansson et al....

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Regulation, institutions and aggregate investment : new evidence from OECD countries

Égert, Balázs - 2017

and labour market regulation on the capital stock. Several alternative testing methods show that the negative influence of … product and labour market regulation is considerably stronger at higher levels. The paper uncovers important policy …

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Extreme risk interdependence

Polanski, Arnold; Stoja, Evarist - 2016

We define tail interdependence as a situation where extreme outcomes for some variables are informative about such outcomes for other variables. We extend the concept of multiinformation to quantify tail interdependence, decompose it into systemic and residual interdependence and measure the...

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Efficiency estimates of health care systems

Medeiros, João; Schwierz, Christoph - 2015

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Using data envelopment analysis to measure international agricultural efficiency and productivity

Arnade, Carlos Anthony - 1994

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