Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardlysurprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECDGDP in 2005; and this pension spending effort is set to increase significantly over the comingdecades in response to...

Aunque la OCDE es una organización de incuestionable importancia mundial, se conoce muy poco sobre la influencia que ejerce en sus países miembros. Además, en la bibliografía existente sobre la OCDE se ha prestado muy poca atención a España. Este trabajo plantea un análisis actualizado de...

In this paper we analyze the relationship between income and health expenditure in 31 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. We focus on the differences between short and long term elasticities and we also check the adjustment process of health care expenditure...

Among economists the following questions arise: Will new measures of well-being1 be any more meaningful than traditional indicators? Is the new focus on quality of life a welcome recognition that governments can and should promote happiness? In my study I introduce the OECD’s so-called Better...

Poverty is an important policy issue in OECD countries and the recent crisis has made it even more pressing. This paper highlights poverty rate differences across countries and reviews the various policies to tackle it. The OECD-wide poverty rate has drifted up, reaching around 11% in the late...

This paper derives estimates of the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia and the other OECD countries from data envelopment analysis based on model specifications used in earlier OECD studies. Results suggest that Slovenia ranks about 25th among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a...

Cash benefit programmes have increasingly emphasised conditionality and "demanding" forms of activation in recent decades. Behavioural requirements are now a key element in reforms of unemployment benefits (UB) and related out-of-work benefits in high-income OECD countries, and they are the...

Cash benefit programmes have increasingly emphasised conditionality and "demanding" forms of activation in recent decades. Behavioural requirements are now a key element in reforms of unemployment benefits (UB) and related out-of-work benefits in high-income OECD countries, and they are the...

Major variations in medical practice have been documented internationally. Variations raise questions about the quality, equity, and efficiency of resource allocation and use, and have important implications for health care and health policy.