Australia
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Since the early 1990s the employment rate of Australia’s working-age population has increased from about 66% to over 72%, and GDP per capita has risen by about 10% more than in the average OECD country. In 2010, Australia ranked among the top ten...
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In the immediate future, rising youth unemployment will be a major concern for Australian policymakers. The world is currently facing a severe economic crisis that is affecting Australia and worsening the labour market prospects of many of its ...
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Subsidies to ethanol and biodiesel per ton of CO2 equivalent avoided in selected OECD countries, lower bound estimates, 2006 appears in The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for Global Action beyond 2012.
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Student performance in Australia is assessed by a wide range of instruments, ranging from national standardised tests to ongoing daily formative assessment in the classroom. At the national level, both full-cohort and national sample assessments of ...
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This chapter focuses on the strengths of the Australian skills system that the country can build on. It focuses on three main findings: strong basic skills in the migrant population, widespread knowledge of ICT in Australian society, and the positive...
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Australia has a fragmented set of primary and community health services that can be difficult for patients to navigate. Attempts at planning across governments and facilities are limited, making it difficult to design robust patient pathways from...
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Regulatory policy may be defined broadly as an explicit, dynamic, and consistent “whole-of-government” policy to pursue high quality regulation. A key part of the OECD’s 2005 Guiding Principles for Regulatory Quality and Performance is that ...
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Children’s learning, development and well-being are directly influenced by their daily interactions with other children, adults, their families and the environment. This interactive process is known as “process quality”, and leads to a key question –...
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