Wages and indirect labour costs in Western industrialized countries

Administrative costs in selected industrialized countries

The costs of health administration are compared across several countries, accompanied by discussion of some of the variations in the definition of health administration. The influence of American health accounting on other countries is examined, and findings are presented regarding the relative costs of insurance-based and direct-delivery systems. Data are presented on health administrative spe...

Iodine deficiency in industrialized countries.

The recent report of poor iodine status in the UK is a wake-up call to health authorities in industrialized countries who have been slow to grasp that iodine deficiency (ID) is not confined to developing countries. Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Norway and now the UK are all mildly iodine deficient. In the US, iodine intakes have fallen, and it is uncertain whether status is adequate in pregn...

Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries

USA. We have benefited from conversations with James F. Burgess, Jr. and David C. Wheelock. We are grateful for financial support from the Belgian Government (" Projet d'Actions de Recherche Concertées, PARC no. 93/98–164), and from the Management Science Group, US Department of Veterans Affairs. We alone, of course, are responsible for any remaining errors in the current text.

Labour and Wages in Pre-industrial Catalonia

Wages and Productivity: the Role of Labour Market Institutions in Oecd Countries*

In the context of a monetary union, to keep a territorial equilibrium in terms of economic activity and employment, the relationship between real wages and productivity is crucial. In this paper, empirical evidence about the response of wages to productivity is obtained for 20 OECD countries and the role of labour market institutions to explain differences in this response is analysed.