This Report examines the state of competition policy in Denmark in 2004. It focuses particular attention on developments since the 1999 " Report on the Role of Competition Policy in Regulatory Reform " , prepared as part of a larger OECD study of regulatory reform in Denmark.

We find new empirical regularities in the business cycle in a cross-country panel of 22 OECD countries for the period 1972 to 2007; entrepreneurship Granger-causes the cycles of the world economy. Furthermore, the entrepreneurial cycle is positively affected by the national unemployment cycle. We discuss possible causes and implications of these findings.

This paper provides an overview of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an on-going international comparative survey study of educational outcomes at age 15. PISA is sponsored by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and for the period 1998-2010 has been designed and implemented by a consortium led by the Australian Council for Educational Resea...

The Wage Premium of Foreign Education: New Evidence from Australia We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants’ education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital obtained in Australia and other OECD cou...

The relationship between unemployment and entrepreneurship has been shrouded with ambiguity. On the one hand, one strand in the literature has found that unemployment stimulates entrepreneurial activity, which has been termed as a “refugee effect”. On the other hand, a very different strand in the literature has identified that higher levels of entrepreneurship reduce unemployment, or what has ...

AIM To examine the relationships between leader-member exchange (LMX), workplace learning options (teamwork, training and development), empowerment and organisational commitment, for nurses in Australia, England and Brazil. BACKGROUND The supervisor-employee relationship is fundamental to management theory and practice within the work context of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Devel...