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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"OECD countries"”.
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Modelling and comparing OECD countries' consumer behaviour
This thesis seeks to model and compare OECD countries' consumer behaviour. We build REPIHIRELCH and ECM formulations using long time-series based solely upon private sector measures of income for twenty OECD countries. No previous study features such a broad coverage of private sector data and …
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New Risks in Our Age: Migration, Terrorism and Emerging Radical Right in OECD Countries
… by foreign-born individuals in 27 developed countries (1995-2017). Empirical analyses suggest that increasing economic inequality leads to subsequent foreign-born individuals' terrorist attacks. The second chapter studies how migration and surging radical right parties impact anti-migration …
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Family leave policy and child health: Evidence from 19 OECD countries from 1969 to 2010
… for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries from 1969 to 2010. In addition, this dissertation investigates the extent to which the effects of leave policy vary by period and across welfare regimes. This research contributes to the existing literature (Ruhm, 2000; Tanaka, 2005) …
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Eco Innovation and Firm Performance in OECD Countries: Moderating Effects of Firm Age and Firm Size
… for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) firms, focusing on the boundary conditions shaping the EI-firm performance (FP) link. Although the Porter Hypothesis (PH) predicts a “win‑win” competitiveness gain from EI, evidence remains mixed. Using 158,880 OECD firm‑year observations …
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Development and differences in structure of tax revenues in the OECD countries with an emphasis on personal income tax
… is to examine tax systems developments of the OECD countries. It also aims at identifying similarities and differences between the main choices of the OECD countries, with regard to tax levels, structures and systems: in many cases over the last forty or fifty years. The paper also tries to …
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Advancing the Frontier of Extended Producer Responsibility: The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in non-OECD countries
… (WEEE) has become a salient issue in non-OECD countries. With a growing awareness about serious damages to the environment and human health from a lack of safe treatment and recycling of WEEE, there has been a search for policy responses in several of these countries. This research finds …
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Understanding the role of the health workforce in driving health spending: trends across OECD countries and implications for the US
… health workforce density relationship across OECD countries and what share of the variance in health spending can be explained by variation in the health workforce. We used an expanded health workforce definition that included both front-line caregivers and background health care workers. Our …
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Towards a New Model for Early Warning Signals for Systemic Financial Fragility and Near Crises: An Application to OECD Countries
… signal extraction framework and looks at the 30 OECD countries over a 30-year period (1979 to 2007). A number of variables were found to be significant in predicting near crises, including banking assets growth, banking assets to GDP, liquidity and a proxy for corporate sector health. The second …
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Equity in Health Financing: Review of Health Care financing in Four organizations for economic cooperation development (OECD) countries, Canada, The republic of Korea, Mexico and the United Kingdom
… To undertake a comparative analysis of selected OECD countries with universal coverage to derive lessons that could inform the development of universal coverage policy in low-to-middle income (LMICs) countries. Methods: Empirical evidence from the OECD was sourced through an extensive review of …
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The determinants and impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Kenya and Tanzania: an OECD and non-OECD perspective 1996-2016
… and fixed effect models) comprising of 22 home countries for Kenya and 23 for Tanzania for the period 1996-2016. The investigation of both the determinants and impacts of FDI is considered on the basis of the heterogeneity of investing MNEs in terms of economic development levels by grouping the …
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The determinants and impact of inward oil and gas FDI in Nigeria
… models, which include, the country as a whole, OECD group and non-OECD group using dynamic panel data analysis techniques proposed by Blundell and Bond (1998) known in methodology literature as sys-GMM (system Generalized-Method-of-Moment). The study’s empirical evidence provides statistical …
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Canada's Contribution to Neglected Tropical Disease Research: A Co-authorship Network Analysis
… centralization and core-periphery) of countries and institutions contributing to Canada’s NTD research. Results: Over the past sixty years (1950-2010) there has been a notable increase in Canada’s NTD publication activity. Canada’s NTD researchers specialize in Leishmania and African …
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Essays in Economic *Growth and Asset Pricing
… pairwise income per capita convergence for 15 OECD countries using a time series based test. Our model allows income per capita differentials to exhibit long range dependence, which generalizes the specification in previous studies. Using semi-parametric estimation procedures we find ample …
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The Emergence and Persistence of Entrepreneurship Policy — A Policy Process Perspective [before doctoral defense]
… persistence of entrepreneurship policy across OECD countries in the developed world. The term entrepreneurship policy refers to a set of public policy instruments aimed at promoting entrepreneurship in specific socioeconomic contexts. These instruments include support services, educational …
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Foreign direct investment: causes and consequences. The determinants of inward and outward FDI and their relationship with economic growth
… current studies by focusing on developed OECD countries as they are the major sources and recipients of world FDI and current studies relating to developed countries using aggregate country FDI data are limited. This study empirically tests the determinants of FDI inflows and outflows and …
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Essay on Tax Enforcement, Optimal Monetary Policy and Labor Supply
… the pattern of market work and tax rates in OECD countries; this has important welfare implications.
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Essays on infrastructure, trade, and politics in Developing Countries
… foreign investment? A literature focusing on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention claims that these laws direct international business toward less corrupt destination countries, with the effect of diverting business away from developing countries. I rebut this claim, using three empirical tests: (i) a …
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Essays on environmental regulations and international economics.
… goods with particular reference to the OECD countries. I introduce environmental regulation and factor endowment differentials into a multi-country general equilibrium model of bilateral trade with random productivities and trade barriers along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and …
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