This paper studies the income inequality and economic development relationship by using unbalanced panel data on OECD and non-OECD countries for the period 1962 2003. Nonparametric estimation results show that income inequality in OECD countries are almost on the backside of the inverted-U, while non-OECD countries are approximately on the foreside, except that the relationship in both country ...

The article measures the relative efficiency of government spending on higher education in selected new EU member states (with special focus on Croatia and Slovenia) in comparison to selected OECD countries. The article applies a non-parametric approach, i.e. data envelopment analysis (DEA), to assess the relative technical efficiency of higher education across selected countries. When estimati...

OBJECTIVES To compare average levels of population health for Australia and other OECD countries in 2001. METHODS Healthy life expectancies (HALE) for OECD countries for 2001 are based on analysis of mortality data for OECD countries, country-specific estimates of health state prevalences for 135 causes from the Global Burden of Disease 2000 study, and an analysis of 34 health surveys in 28 O...

The strong correlation between Australian and US output growth over the last two decades has been widely documented and analysed. What has always been difficult to understand is the source of this correlation, particularly since the extent of Australia’s integration with the US economy is no greater in many respects than with other countries. A recent research project within the Economic Resear...

This article presents the results of examining selected factors co-occurring with high fertility rate in developed countries. Selected OECD countries at a similar stage demographic development have been subjected to analysis. By means cluster analysis, also identified according type adopted family policy. It has found that which spend more on policy relation GDP are generally characterised by h...

Purpose The economic shock posed by the current COVID-19 outbreak brought out a worldwide public health emergency with close relationship between industrial marketing practices, level of society and its development. purpose this study is to analyse dynamics in care their impact on growth status. Design/methodology/approach To empirically investigate health, authors use data set drawn from 29 se...

This article provides an overview of current trends in health expenditures in 29 OECD countries and recent revisions of OECD health accounts. U.S. health expenditures are compared with those of other OECD countries. The interactions of cost-containment measures with changes in the public-private mix of financing and in the composition of health care spending are discussed.

BACKGROUND Compared to OECD countries, Israel has a remarkably low percentage of GDP and of government expenditure spent on health, which are not reflected in worse national outcomes. Israel is also characterized by a relatively high share of GDP spent on security expenses and payment of public debt. OBJECTIVES To determine to what extent differences between Israel and the OECD countries in s...