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01 Sep 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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"Schools of the Future" Initiative in California
Kathleen Moore, Pages: 6
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CELE Exchange, Centre for Effective Learning Environments
This article provides an overview of the "Schools of the Future" initiative introduced in California
in January 2011 by the newly elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson.
Its objective is to focus on the reform of the state school facility programme and to design...
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07 June 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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"Stay With Us?" The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras
Jason Gagnon, Pages: 49
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap with regards to the impact of emigration on sending countries. Building on the established literature measuring the impact of immigration, this paper attempts to narrow...
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01 Apr 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Delicate Balance: Mobility and Access Needs, Expectations and Costs
David Metz, Pages: 25
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International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
Mobility has been central to economic development and social progress in the modern era. There is emerging evidence, however, that personal daily travel has recently ceased to grow in developed economies. The historic increase in mobility served to enlarge access to desired destinations and...
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31 May 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Dynamic Factor Model for World Trade Growth
Stéphanie Guichard, Elena Rusticelli, Pages: 30
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper reviews the main monthly indicators that could help forecasting world trade and compares
different type of forecasting models using these indicators. In particular it develops dynamic factor models
(DFM) which have the advantage of handling larger datasets of information than bridge...
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18 Oct 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Framework for Assessing the Marginal External Accident Cost of Road Use and its Implications for Insurance Ratemaking
Lasse Fridstrøm, Pages: 27
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International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
The external accident cost of road use is a function of the marginal relationship between road use and accidents, as expressed, for instance, by the elasticity. This elasticity is, however, not necessarily constant, but may be assumed to depend on the traffic volume as seen in relation to road...
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19 Oct 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Literature Review on Trade and Informal Labour Markets in Developing Countries
Laura Munro, Pages: 29
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OECD Trade Policy Papers
This report provides a summary of the literature on the relationship between trade and informality in developing countries, with an emphasis on the BRIICS. While main conclusions of the ILO and WTO (2009) literature review are highlighted, the report focuses on additional and more recent...
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18 Mar 2011
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Article
English
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A Market Perspective on the European Sovereign Debt and Banking Crisis
Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Patrick Slovik, Pages: 9–36
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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
Europe has been beset by an interrelated banking crisis and sovereign debt crisis. Bond spreads faced by Greece and Ireland, and to a lesser extent Portugal followed by Spain, have increased. This paper explores these issues from the perspective of ...
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23 Feb 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Multiplicative Masking Method for Preserving the Skewness of the Original Micro-records
Nicolas Ruiz, Pages: 20
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
Masking methods for the safe dissemination of microdata consist of distorting the original data while
preserving a pre-defined set of statistical properties in the microdata. For continuous variables,
available methodologies rely essentially on matrix masking and in particular on adding noise...
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18 Mar 2011
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Article
English
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A Public Debt Management Perspective on Proposals for Restrictions on Short Selling of Sovereign Debt
Hans J. Blommestein, Pages: 179–185
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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
New restrictions on short-selling sovereign debt need to be supported by concrete evidence that links systematically unrestricted short-selling activities to fraud, abuse or market manipulation. OECD debt managers noted that there is plenty of ...
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01 Sep 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Review of University Facilities in Turkey
Selcen Altınsoy, Pages: 7
in
CELE Exchange, Centre for Effective Learning Environments
As a result of the massive growth of higher education in Turkey, the most pressing priority for this
sector today is to meet the new space requirements for an increasing number of students. Now
a subject of public attention more than ever before, the second largest item of expenditure...
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15 Sep 2011
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Article
English
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A tale of two strategies: higher education and economic recovery in Ireland and Australia
Ellen Hazelkorn, Vin Massaro, Pages: 1–24
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Higher Education Management and Policy
The complex effects of the global financial crisis (GFC) have affected countries differently. The concept of stimulus packages to enable economies to withstand its full effects was widespread, as were decisions by several countries to invest in ...
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21 Feb 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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A Tuning-AHELO Conceptual Framework of Expected Desired/Learning Outcomes in Engineering
OECD, Pages: 55
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OECD Education Working Papers
The OECD Secretariat, at the invitation of the AHELO Group of National Experts, contracted the
Tuning Association to undertake initial development work on learning outcomes to be used for valid and
reliable assessments of students from diverse institutions and countries. The two disciplines...
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25 May 2011
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Article
English
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A wealth of diversity: Guiding development in a complex world
Eckhard Deutscher, Pages: 7–14
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OECD Journal: General Papers
2010 was a landmark year for the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in many ways. It marked 50 years since the DAC was founded, it was the year Eckhard Deutscher handed over the Chair to Brian Atwood, and it marked the coming of age of the Paris ...
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21 Dec 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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A Welfare Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
Alain de Serres, Fabrice Murtin, Pages: 29
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper assesses some welfare consequences of climate change mitigation policies. In the same vein as Becker, Philipson and Soares (2005), a simple index of economic progress weighs in the monetary cost induced by mitigation policies as well as the health benefits arising from the reduction...
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29 Sep 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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Accident Cost, Speed and Vehicle Mass Externalities, and Insurance
Lars Hultkrantz, Gunnar Lindberg, Pages: 27
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International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
Traffic accidents are a human tragedy that kills 1.2 million people worldwide annually (World Health Organization, 2004). The cost of traffic accidents are huge and recent estimates for US alone suggest the cost to be USD 433 billion in year 2000 or 4.3 percentage of GDP (Parry et al, 2007). A...
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01 Dec 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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Accounting for the Self-Employed in Labour Share Estimates: The Case of the United States
Rebecca Ann Freeman, Pages: 43
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
The imputation of the labour income of the self-employed typically relies upon the assumption that individuals of this group earn the same average hourly compensation as employees, either at the total economy or industry level. While this assumption is convenient in that it relies upon readily...
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06 Dec 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Addressing Challenges in the Energy Sector in Israel
Philip Hemmings, Pages: 33
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Offshore natural-gas discoveries have released Israel from complete reliance on imported primary fuels and are allowing for a cleaner energy mix. Furthermore, additional production will soon come on stream, and there is a reasonable chance of new commercially viable gas finds, and possibly of...
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25 May 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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Adjusting Fiscal Balances for Asset Price Cycles
Robert Price, Thai-Thanh Dang, Pages: 72
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper develops a method for adjusting structural budget balances for asset price cycles and presents estimates of structural budget balances corrected for house-price and equity-price cycles for OECD countries. The traditional cyclically adjusted budget balance indicator, which is the...
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01 Sep 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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Advantage Energy: Emerging Economies, Developing Countries and the Private-Public Sector Interface
David Elzinga, Lew Fulton, Steve Heinen, Oscar Wasilik, Pages: 64
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IEA Energy Papers
Increased focus has been placed on the issues of energy access and energy poverty over the last number of years, most notably indicated by the United Nations (UN) declaring 2012 as the "International Year of Sustainable Energy for All". Although attention in these topics has increased,...
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18 May 2011
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Article
English
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Aggregate Comovements, Anticipation, and Business Cycles
David R. F. Love, Pages: 93–110
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OECD Journal: Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
This paper shows that negative comovements between major macroeconomic variables at business-cycle frequencies are commonly observed, but that standard Real Business Cycle (RBC) theory fails to predict this feature of the data. We show that allowing ...
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