The policy brief details the critical challenges for well-being of children in context COVID-19 crisis and lays out foundations a Framework Achieving Well-Being Children post-COVID-19 Decade to ensure that are put at centre efforts build back better. proposes five pillars action, which includes developing data framework monitoring child outcomes policies ensuring political leadership commitment...

The OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme and the Danish Business Authority (DBA) organised on 28 March 2012 a workshop on the theme of “High-growth firms: local policies and local determinants”. This is the result of the new interest of policy makers towards highgrowth firms, i.e. firms that grow rapidly over a short period of time, because of the number of jobs they ...

This paper analyses the role played by foreign direct investment (FDI) as a mechanism through which technology flows between countries. After a short review of the existing literature it is observed that aggregate studies do not obtain evidence of the existence of technology spillovers amongst the OECD countries. These results oppose the presumption among many academics and policy-makers that F...

In vivo mutagenicity and carcinogenicity studies are posing a high demand for testrelated resources. Among these studies, the micronucleus test in rodents is the most widely used, as follow up to positive in vitro mutagenicity results. A recent survey of the (Q)SAR models for mutagenicity and carcinogenicity has indicated that no (Q)SAR models for in vivo micronucleus are available in the publi...

This paper studies the responses of unemployment in Germany, the United States and Britain to the Great Recession of 2008-09 by making use of Beveridge curve analysis, and in the entire OECD with other techniques. It is shown that Britain suffered from recession but no structural problems; the United States suffered from structural unemployment during the recovery; Germany exhibited a much bett...

One-year-ahead forecasts by the OECD and by national institutes of GDP growth and inflation in 13 European countries are analysed. RMSE was large: 1.9 % for growth and 1.6 % for inflation. Six (11) OECD and 10 (7) institute growth forecast records were significantly better than an average growth forecast (the current year forecast). All full record-length inflation forecasts were significantly ...

Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the United States current account deficit has attracted intense attention and spawned numerous explanations. There are undoubtedly many reaso...

Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the perm...

BACKGROUND Harmful alcohol consumption in older people has increased and effective approaches to understanding and addressing this societal concern are needed. METHODS Systematic review of qualitative studies in older populations (55+ years) to identify barriers, facilitators or context of drinking in older people. Multiple databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, CENTRAL, Social Science...

Complete List of Authors: Tunceli, Kaan; Henry Ford Health System, Center for Health Services Research Bradley, Cathy; Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Health Administration Elston Lafata, Jennifer; Henry Ford Health System, Center for Health Services Research Pladevall, Manel; Henry Ford Health System, Center for Health Services Research Goodman, Allen; Wayne State University, D...