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Gesundheitsbericht für Deutschland : Kurzfassung
1998 - Kurzfassung
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Fiscal decentralisation and income inequality : empirical evidence from OECD countries
Stossberg, Sibylle; Bartolini, David; Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2016
This paper investigates the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economy-wide disposable income inequality. Drawing on a dataset of up to 20 OECD countries over a period from 1996 to 2011, a regression analysis is performed, relating several indicators of national income inequality...
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Finance and income inequality in OECD countries
Denk, Oliver; Cournède, Boris - 2015
Using data from OECD countries over the past three decades, this paper shows that financial expansion has fuelled greater income inequality. Higher levels of credit intermediation and stock markets are both related with a more unequal distribution of income. Greater income inequality may not...
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Financial sector pay and labour income inequality : evidence from Europe
Denk, Oliver - 2015
Public questioning about the role of finance has been fuelled by the perception that financial sector pay is an important factor behind high economic inequalities. This paper is the first to provide a comprehensive look at the level of earnings in finance and the implications for labour income...
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Income inequality in the European Union
Leyen, Kaja von der - 2012
Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
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The global income distribution for high-income countries
Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2017
This paper presents the global income distribution between all individuals living in the developed world. Global inequality for the group of high-income countries, as measured by the Gini coefficient, stands at 37 in 2013 and has increased by almost 3 Gini points since the mid-1990s. This was...
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France : improving the efficiency of the health-care system
Goujard, Antoine - 2018
France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology … by care providers, tackle the high spending on pharmaceuticals, strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing …
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Health literacy for peoplecentred care : where do OECD countries stand?
Moreira, Liliane - 2018
ways to understand their health options and take more control over their health decisions. But this is not an easy task …. Professionals continue to use medical jargon, drug instructions are not always clear, and health information in clinical settings … democratising access to health information, providing new ways to improve health knowledge and support self care. Nonetheless, when …
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Modelling life trajectories of body-mass index
Vuik, Sabine - 2021
life while decreasing after middle age. To be able to reflect these trends in the OECD Strategic Public Health Planning for …
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