Essays about: "OECD"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 231 essays containing the word OECD.

  1. 1. Import penetration from China and its effect on manufacturing employment in the OECD countries

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Hellberg; Ludvig Mannerson; [2019]
    Keywords : China; Import penetration; OECD; trade; manufacturing; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : China has ever since the 1990s emerged as a manufacturing superpower, following its liberalized trade reforms and its entrance to the World Trade Organization. This has caused China to expand their exports substantially, in particular to the OECD countries. READ MORE

  3. 2. Import penetration from China and its effect on manufacturing employment in the OECD countries.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Ludvig Mannerson; [2019]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

    Abstract : China has ever since the 1990s emerged as a manufacturing superpower, following its liberalized trade reforms and its entrance to the World Trade Organization. This has caused China to expand their exports substantially, in particular to the OECD countries. READ MORE

  4. 3. Do long waiting times worsen health outcomes of patients with cardiovascular diseases? A study using data from SHARE survey

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Jesper Carlsson; Lukas Ma; [2018-07-09]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Long hospital waits are causing frustrations among patients and are a fiercely debated topic in many OECD countries. Peoples are worrying about that long waiting times might cause deterioration in patients’ health. This study investigates whether waiting times have any adverse impact on health in patients with cardiovascular diseases. READ MORE

  5. 4. Is it wrong to assume economic growth promotes well-being in society?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : John Norell; Anh Phung Duc; [2018-07-05]
    Keywords : Easterlin paradox; Subjective well-being; Happiness; Life satisfaction; Economic growth; Income inequality; Panel data; European Social Survey;

    Abstract : Economic growth has for long been implicitly assumed to promote well-being in society, but lately scholars in the field of happiness research have raised critique towards this assumption. This paper investigate the relationship between economic growth and subjective well-being (SWB) in society, a topic that have risen in popularity over recent decades. READ MORE

  6. 5. Dissecting the Comparatively Low Education Premium in Sweden - an Empirical Approach

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : David Lindquist; Tim Lundqvist; [2018]
    Keywords : Returns to Tertiary Education; Mincer Earnings Function; Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition; Sweden;

    Abstract : Previous studies show that Sweden has the lowest rate of return to tertiary education in the OECD, significantly lower than its Nordic neighbors. Common factors suggested by conventional theory in explaining differences in the education premium are related to relative supply and demand of skilled labor, productivity, labor market features and fiscal policy. READ MORE