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09 Aug 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators: Methodology and User Guide
Michela Nardo, Michaela Saisana, Andrea Saltelli, Stefano Tarantola, Anders Hoffman, Enrico Giovannini, Pages: 109
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
This Handbook aims to provide a guide for constructing and using composite indicators for policy makers, academics, the media and other interested parties. While there are several types of composite indicators, this Handbook is concerned with those which compare and rank country performance in...
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08 Oct 2004
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Working/Policy Paper
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Handbook on Hedonic Indexes and Quality Adjustments in Price Indexes: Special Application to Information Technology Products
Jack Triplett, Pages: 255
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
This handbook reviews the methods employed in price indexes to adjust for quality change: "conventional" quality adjustment methods, which are explained in Chapter II, and hedonic price indexes (Chapter III). Hedonic indexes have a prominent place in price indexes for information and...
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18 Nov 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
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Happiness and Age Cycles - Return to Start...?: On the Functional Relationship between Subjective Well-Being and Age
Justina A.V. Fischer, Pages: 43
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
Previous happiness research has explicitly assumed that subjective well-being is U-shaped in age.
This paper sheds new light on this issue testing several functional forms. Using micro data from the World
Values Survey on 44 000 persons in 30 economically advanced OECD countries with long...
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24 Dec 2009
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Article
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Harmonisation of Nuclear Liability in the European Union: Challenges, Options and Limits
Jakub Handrlica, Pages: 35–64
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Nuclear Law Bulletin
Recent discussions have identified gaps in the existing nuclear liability regimes in a more focused fashion. The so-called nuclear renaissance or nuclear new build1 cannot be limited to the mere multiplication of nuclear power plants. It must take ...
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29 July 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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Harmonising Climate Risk Management: Adaptation Screening and Assessment Tools for Development Co-operation
Anne Hammill, Thomas Tanner, Pages: 53
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OECD Environment Working Papers
Development planners and project managers have used a wide variety of tools to manage a broad range of environmental risks, including those posed by climate variability, for a long time. Some of these tools have also now been modified to take into account the risks posed by climate change. At...
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19 Sep 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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Has Deregulation Increased Investment in Infrastructure?: Firm-Level Evidence from OECD Countries
Sónia Araújo, Pages: 45
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper investigates the role played by deregulation on firms’ investment decisions in infrastructure sectors. The analysis covers the period 1980-2006, which was characterised by increased liberalisation and privatisation across OECD countries. We assess the relationship of different...
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01 May 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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Has Discipline in School Deteriorated?
OECD, Pages: 4
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PISA in Focus
Classrooms and schools with more disciplinary problems are less conducive to learning, since teachers have to spend more time creating an orderly environment before instruction can begin. Interruptions in the classroom disrupt students’ concentration on, and their engagement in, their lessons....
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01 Oct 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
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Has Pension Reform Failed Latin America?
Charles Oman, Waldo Tapia, Pages: 2
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OECD Development Centre Policy Insights
Pension reform in Latin America has helped deepen capital markets, but with mixed results in terms of increasing national savings. Private pension funds have a still untapped potential to help to improve corporate governance of the companies in which they invest.
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13 Dec 2006
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Working/Policy Paper
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Has the Rise in Debt Made Households More Vulnerable?
Nathalie Girouard, Mike Kennedy, Christophe André, Pages: 40
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper reviews, for a number of OECD economies, macroeconomic developments in household balance sheets over the past two decades. The main findings show that the rise in household debt to historical levels has been driven by a combination of favourable financial conditions and buoyant...
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01 Sep 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
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Have all the Costs of Closing a School Been Considered?
Michael Lytton, Pages: 6
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CELE Exchange, Centre for Effective Learning Environments
Many schools around the world are struggling in the face of reduced funding and fluctuating
enrolments. Often, the solution to this unhappy equation is quite simply to shut down facilities. But
when all the costs of closing a school are considered – financial, material and human –...
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31 Dec 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
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Have Americans Hit Peak Travel?: A Discussion of the Changes in US Driving Habits
Robert Puentes, Pages: 26
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International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
American driving habits are changing. After decades of steady increases in the amount of driving, the number of vehicles, and the extent of licensed drivers, there now appears to be a shift. The growth is clearly leveling off, and dropping on a per capita basis, even at a time when a vast array...
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15 May 2008
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Working/Policy Paper
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Have Developed Countries Escaped the Curse of Distance?
Hervé Boulhol, Alain de Serres, Pages: 30
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
There is widespread evidence that a better access to markets contributes to raising income levels. However, no quantification of the impact of distance to markets has been made on the basis of a sample restricted to advanced — and therefore more homogeneous — countries. This paper applies the...
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05 Sep 2008
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Working/Policy Paper
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Have Long-term Financial Trends Changed the Transmission of Monetary Policy?
Boris Cournède, Rudiger Ahrend, Robert Price, Pages: 38
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper addresses the question of whether and how long-term financial trends may have modified
the transmission mechanism from monetary policy decisions to economic activity. The focus is on longterm
changes, abstracting from the disruptions created by the 2007-08 financial turmoil which...
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23 Nov 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
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Health Care Quality Indicators Project: Patient Safety Indicators Report 2009
Saskia Drösler, Patrick Romano, Lihan Wei, Pages: 153
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OECD Health Working Papers
This paper reports on the progress in the research and development of the set of patient safety
indicators developed by the Health Care Quality Indicators project. The indicators presented here have
been recommended by an expert group for further consideration in international reporting on the...
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09 Mar 2006
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Working/Policy Paper
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Health Care Quality Indicators Project: Conceptual Framework Paper
Edward Kelley, Jeremy Hurst, Pages: 38
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OECD Health Working Papers
This paper represents an attempt to set out a conceptual framework for the OECD’s Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project. Two main issues are tackled: what concepts, or dimensions, of quality of health care should be measured and how, in principle, should they be measured. The need for a...
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09 Mar 2006
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Working/Policy Paper
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Health Care Quality Indicators Project: Initial Indicators Report
Soeren Mattke, Edward Kelley, Peter Scherer, Jeremy Hurst, Maria Luisa Gil Lapetra, HCQI Expert Group Members, Pages: 153
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OECD Health Working Papers
The OECD Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project was started in 2001. The long-term objective of the HCQI Project is to develop a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for further investigation concerning quality of health care across countries. It was envisioned that the...
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11 Oct 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
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Health Care Quality Indicators Project 2006 Data Collection Update Report
Sandra Garcia Armesto, Maria Luisa Gil Lapetra, Lihan Wei, Edward Kelley, Pages: 159
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OECD Health Working Papers
This report is an update to the OECD Health Working Paper No. 22, Health Care Quality Indicators Project: Initial Indicators Report that was based on data collected between 2003 and 2005 and released in 2006. That report presented the OECD’s initial work on developing a set of health care...
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11 Jan 2013
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Working/Policy Paper
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Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care in the Netherlands
Erik Schut, Stéphane Sorbe, Jens Høj, Pages: 37
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
The Netherlands, as other OECD countries, faces the challenge of providing high quality health and long-term care services to an ageing population in a cost-efficient manner. In the health care sector, reforms have aimed at introducing more competition. Despite major changes and some positive...
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01 Apr 1994
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Working/Policy Paper
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Health Care Reform Controlling Spending and Increasing Efficiency
Howard Oxley, Maitland MacFarlan, Pages: 127
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
The paper reviews trends in health-care expenditure and assesses the main forces underlying the increase since 1960. It then describes and evaluates various health-care reforms. The report argues that top-down budget controls appear to have had some success in reducing the growth in health-care...
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12 Feb 2002
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Working/Policy Paper
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Health Care Reform in Japan
Yutaka Imai, Pages: 22
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
The health status of the Japanese is one of the best in the world. The healthcare system has no doubt contributed to this, though the current state of research in health economics does not permit the determination of the extent of such contribution. The Japanese system, based on social...
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