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No. 63 | 13 Sept 2002 |
The Evolving Retirement Income Package
In 1998, the OECD issued a report, Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society, on the widespread policy implications of ageing. This study is a background paper for one of the follow-up studies, Ageing and Income: Financial Resources and Retirement... |
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No. 62 | 29 Oct 2002 |
The Relationship Between Personal, Family, Resource and Work Factors and Maternal Employment in Australia
The factors associated with mothers’ attachment to the labour force are of interest to social researchers and policy makers. Previous research conducted had found that factors such as mother’s education, number of children, partner’s employment and... |
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No. 61 | 16 Oct 2002 |
Low Fertility and Labour Force Participation of Italian Women
In Italy, as well as in other Southern European countries, low labor market participation rates of married women are observed together with low birth rates. Our proposed explanation for this apparent anomaly involves the Italian institutional... |
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No. 60 | 14 Aug 2002 |
Getting Older, Getting Poorer?
Ageing involves not one but several transitions. People move from working to not working, from relying upon labour income to relying on transfers. They also tend to live in smaller households, not only because any children will have moved away but... |
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No. 59 | 14 Oct 2002 |
Postponement of Maternity and the Duration of Time Spent at Home after First Birth
This paper analyses the postponement of first births of the 1990s compared to the 1980s, using panel data from four countries, namely, Germany (GSOEP), Great Britain (BHPS), the Netherlands (OSA) and Sweden (HUS). We find substantial postponement of... |
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No. 58 | 09 Jan 2003 |
Social Assistance in Germany
This paper follows the framework developed in past OECD studies for analysis of social assistance programmes that aim to provide low-income clients with adequate financial support while simultaneously promoting their reintegration into labour market... |
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No. 57 | 25 Jan 2002 |
Improving the Performance of Health Care Systems
There is growing interest in improving the performance of health systems in OECD countries. Many countries are developing initiatives to measure performance to guide and inform the improvement process. Indeed, measurement and improvement are... |
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No. 56 | 06 Dec 2001 |
An Assessment of the Performance of the Japanese Health Care System
There is much interest in the Japanese health care system from the perspective of other OECD countries. The Japanese health care system appears to perform well. What explains this apparently good performance? This paper aims both to provide a... |
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No. 55 | 17 Dec 2001 |
Public Support for Retirement Income Reform
The OECD has undertaken a comparison of the resources of older people in nine OECD countries – Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States – and has examined how the incomes of older... |
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No. 53 | 18 Sept 2001 |
Towards More Choice in Social Protection?
There is a considerable interest in some OECD countries in understanding how greater choice in health markets can be combined with the equity and efficiency goals of health systems.This paper reviews the system of free choice of insurer in basic... |
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No. 52 | 29 Aug 2001 |
Net Social Expenditure
This document is the 2nd edition of the Net Social Expenditure paper published in 1999 (Adema, 1999). It contains an overview of net (after tax) public and private social expenditure indicators. These indicators have been developed to supplement... |
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No. 51 | 29 Jun 2001 |
Growth, Inequality and Social Protection
Economic growth is, ultimately, the result of the myriad of transactions which take place in a market economy. Similarly, the distribution of income depends on who has ownership of factors of production, how much they can sell them for, and whether... |
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No. 50 | 05 Jun 2001 |
Knowledge, Work Organisation and Economic Growth
It is sometimes asserted that an era of faster economic growth has come about --the so-called New Economy. New technology, notably information and communications technology (ICT), is seen as a key factor at work, together with international economic... |
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No. 49 | 11 Jan 2002 |
Age of Withdrawal from the Labour Force in OECD Countries
The age of withdrawal from the labour force is an issue of great policy importance. As populations age, an accurate understanding of trends and cross-country differences has become important. However, the age of withdrawal from the labour force... |
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No. 48 | 28 Feb 2001 |
Firms' Contribution to the Reconciliation between Work and Family Life
One of the most striking, long-term trends in the labour market has been the increase in the proportion of parents at work. This has been reflected in the increase in the proportion of dual-earner couple families and of lone-parent families where the... |
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No. 47 | 29 Jan 2001 |
Performance Measurement and Performance Management in OECD Health Systems
Health systems in OECD countries are under pressure to improve their performance. Against that background, this paper has three main aims: To compare concepts of the ‘performance’ of health care systems developed by the WHO and by the OECD, with... |
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No. 46 | 10 Jan 2001 |
Exploring the Effects of Health Care on Mortality Across OECD Countries
Two of the most important questions facing health policy makers in OECD countries are: whether the increasing sums of money devoted to health care are yielding commensurate value in terms of improvements in health status; andwhether different ways of... |
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No. 45 | 30 Mar 2001 |
Trends in Working Hours in OECD Countries
In recent years, the decline in average annual hours of work per person in employment, which can be traced back for over a century, has slowed. In some countries, there has even been an increase in the average annual hours per person employed. In... |
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No. 44 | 06 Oct 2000 |
An Inventory of Health and Disability-Related Surveys in OECD Countries
There is strong policy interest in monitoring trends on the prevalence of chronic diseases and disability rates, both nationally and internationally, in light of rising life expectancy and population ageing. However, international comparisons of... |
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No. 43 | 04 Oct 2000 |
International Trade and Core Labour Standards
The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of the current debate and recent literature on several aspects of international core labor standards. We attempt to address two basic issues. One strand of the literature examines the role... |
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The Evolving Retirement Income Package
Atsuhiro Yamada
13 Sept 2002
In 1998, the OECD issued a report, Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society, on the widespread policy implications of ageing. This study is a background paper for one of the follow-up studies, Ageing and Income: Financial Resources and Retirement...
The Relationship Between Personal, Family, Resource and Work Factors and Maternal Employment in Australia
Edith Gray and Peter McDonald
29 Oct 2002
The factors associated with mothers’ attachment to the labour force are of interest to social researchers and policy makers. Previous research conducted had found that factors such as mother’s education, number of children, partner’s employment and...
Low Fertility and Labour Force Participation of Italian Women
Daniela Del Boca
16 Oct 2002
In Italy, as well as in other Southern European countries, low labor market participation rates of married women are observed together with low birth rates. Our proposed explanation for this apparent anomaly involves the Italian institutional...
Getting Older, Getting Poorer?
Bernard Casey and Atsuhiro Yamada
14 Aug 2002
Ageing involves not one but several transitions. People move from working to not working, from relying upon labour income to relying on transfers. They also tend to live in smaller households, not only because any children will have moved away but...
Postponement of Maternity and the Duration of Time Spent at Home after First Birth
Siv S. Gustafsson, Eiko Kenjoh and Cécile M. M. P. Wetzels
14 Oct 2002
This paper analyses the postponement of first births of the 1990s compared to the 1980s, using panel data from four countries, namely, Germany (GSOEP), Great Britain (BHPS), the Netherlands (OSA) and Sweden (HUS). We find substantial postponement of...
Social Assistance in Germany
Willem Adema, Donald Gray and Sigrun Kahl
09 Jan 2003
This paper follows the framework developed in past OECD studies for analysis of social assistance programmes that aim to provide low-income clients with adequate financial support while simultaneously promoting their reintegration into labour market...
Improving the Performance of Health Care Systems
Zeynep Or
25 Jan 2002
There is growing interest in improving the performance of health systems in OECD countries. Many countries are developing initiatives to measure performance to guide and inform the improvement process. Indeed, measurement and improvement are...
An Assessment of the Performance of the Japanese Health Care System
Hyoung-Sun Jeong and Jeremy Hurst
06 Dec 2001
There is much interest in the Japanese health care system from the perspective of other OECD countries. The Japanese health care system appears to perform well. What explains this apparently good performance? This paper aims both to provide a...
Public Support for Retirement Income Reform
Peter Hicks
17 Dec 2001
The OECD has undertaken a comparison of the resources of older people in nine OECD countries – Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States – and has examined how the incomes of older...
Towards More Choice in Social Protection?
Francesca Colombo
18 Sept 2001
There is a considerable interest in some OECD countries in understanding how greater choice in health markets can be combined with the equity and efficiency goals of health systems.This paper reviews the system of free choice of insurer in basic...
Net Social Expenditure
Willem Adema
29 Aug 2001
This document is the 2nd edition of the Net Social Expenditure paper published in 1999 (Adema, 1999). It contains an overview of net (after tax) public and private social expenditure indicators. These indicators have been developed to supplement...
Growth, Inequality and Social Protection
Roman Arjona, Maxime Ladaique and Mark Pearson
29 Jun 2001
Economic growth is, ultimately, the result of the myriad of transactions which take place in a market economy. Similarly, the distribution of income depends on who has ownership of factors of production, how much they can sell them for, and whether...
Knowledge, Work Organisation and Economic Growth
Elena Arnal, Wooseok Ok and Raymond Torres
05 Jun 2001
It is sometimes asserted that an era of faster economic growth has come about --the so-called New Economy. New technology, notably information and communications technology (ICT), is seen as a key factor at work, together with international economic...
Age of Withdrawal from the Labour Force in OECD Countries
Peter Scherer
11 Jan 2002
The age of withdrawal from the labour force is an issue of great policy importance. As populations age, an accurate understanding of trends and cross-country differences has become important. However, the age of withdrawal from the labour force...
Firms' Contribution to the Reconciliation between Work and Family Life
John M. Evans
28 Feb 2001
One of the most striking, long-term trends in the labour market has been the increase in the proportion of parents at work. This has been reflected in the increase in the proportion of dual-earner couple families and of lone-parent families where the...
Performance Measurement and Performance Management in OECD Health Systems
Jeremy Hurst and Melissa Jee-Hughes
29 Jan 2001
Health systems in OECD countries are under pressure to improve their performance. Against that background, this paper has three main aims: To compare concepts of the ‘performance’ of health care systems developed by the WHO and by the OECD, with...
Exploring the Effects of Health Care on Mortality Across OECD Countries
Zeynep Or
10 Jan 2001
Two of the most important questions facing health policy makers in OECD countries are: whether the increasing sums of money devoted to health care are yielding commensurate value in terms of improvements in health status; andwhether different ways of...
Trends in Working Hours in OECD Countries
John M. Evans, Douglas C. Lippoldt and Pascal Marianna
30 Mar 2001
In recent years, the decline in average annual hours of work per person in employment, which can be traced back for over a century, has slowed. In some countries, there has even been an increase in the average annual hours per person employed. In...
An Inventory of Health and Disability-Related Surveys in OECD Countries
Claire Gudex and Gaétan Lafortune
06 Oct 2000
There is strong policy interest in monitoring trends on the prevalence of chronic diseases and disability rates, both nationally and internationally, in light of rising life expectancy and population ageing. However, international comparisons of...
International Trade and Core Labour Standards
Drusilla K. Brown
04 Oct 2000
The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of the current debate and recent literature on several aspects of international core labor standards. We attempt to address two basic issues. One strand of the literature examines the role...