This study investigates Okun’s law in OECD countries by examining estimates for male and female age cohorts for the period 1998–2012. We find that the estimated Okun coefficients are not always statistically significant for each subgroup of the population. Our results also highlight a...

This paper investigates the effect of governance on levels of water pollution for all industrial activities as well as by some specific industry category in a sample of OECD economies. Using an institutional ecological economic conceptual framework, the effects of several measures of governance...

The main contribution of this paper is the development of a novel and versatile methodology to identify economic reforms. The methodology is a combination of the Bai & Perron structural break filter, and validation of the structural breaks identified using de jure evidence of reforms. The...

This paper employs the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to evaluate the performance of public spending and to show how productivity has changed over time for 18 selected OECD countries during 1995 to 2002. Our analysis shows that 14 countries exhibit variable returns to scale, meaning that...

Among the different criteria used for testing sustainability of public debt, the econometric approach determines whether a government is able to sustain its budget deficits without defaulting on its debt. In this contribution, by linking three different motives proposed respectively by Trehan...

This paper aims to measure the impact of broadband speed on economic growth in the OECD countries. All the variables used in this study were collected from OECD databases, except the speed data, which were gathered from Ookla, a company that provides broadband testing and web-based network...

The study attempted to compare an experience of OECD countries and Russia in providing of social support to the vulnerable popula-tion groups such as activation policies and social assistance. One of key research findings was the theme that the effective functioning of activation policies in...

Questo rapporto presenta gli ultimi dati comparabili a livello internazionale sulla deprivazione materiale e sulla povertà tra I bambini e gli adolescenti. Insieme, queste due diverse misure offrono un'immagine completa ed esaustiva delle condizioni in cui vivono bambini e adolescenti in alcuni...

The Human Development Index (HDI) has played an influential role in the debate on human development (HD) for many years. However, no index is perfect and neither is the HDI of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). This paper aims to construct a new composite index for the development...

Convergence in other words, with the closing of the gap between rich and poor economies, the large number of possible outcomes that may arise in the economy represents only one. While the countries in the middle income group are close to the rich, the poor countries are left behind. On the other...