International Comparison
International comparison of Environmental performance
... One important question in the literature regarding productivity measurement and international comparison aims to specify degree and sources of heterogeneity of countries performance. From a statistical ...
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International Comparison of Wheat Cultivation Costs 2010–2012
... The international comparison shows that the farms in the EU states have the intensity of cultivation of wheat higher than in other countries. In the EU has been greater use of fertilizers observed in ...
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Retirement and Health Investment Behaviors: An International Comparison
... the sample to those aged 55-70 because he finds that the probability of retirement increases sharply at 60 to 65 years of age in Germany. It is better to narrow age range for precise estimation. However, this German ...
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Hungarian higher education and its international comparison
... an international comparison the number of Hungarian state-controlled institutions is significantly below the European average; in terms of the number of state financed students per one million inhabitants ...
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International Consumption Patterns: Evidence from the 1996 International Comparison Project
... The International Comparison Project (ICP) was originally initiated by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (Kravis et al., 1975) and is currently coordinated by the Technical Assistance and ...
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Hungary’s external liabilities in international comparison
... Based on a review of the academic literature, we drew the conclusion that the increase in Hungary’s external liabilities was a natural process explained in part by the initial position of the economy and in part by the ...
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Some social and economic aspects of housing?an international comparison
... In a recent studys the Economic Commission for Europe compared the level of rents in new social housing, comparable with our local authority housing, in Western European countries, takin[r] ...
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"Redistribution Through Taxation: An International Comparison"
... a measure of progressivity by looking at the difference of the two distributions denoted by I*. The ranking by tax progressivity, as a percent of pre-tax inequality is shown to[r] ...
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Administrative charges for funded pensions: An international comparison and assessment
... To summarize, the equations above give lifetime pension contributions plus the investment returns they earn less four different types of charges: a fixed, up-front fee a0; a levy on cont[r] ...
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Wage differentials and the responsiveness of labor supply: an international comparison
... The data used in the analysis reported below refer to the Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, and the United States of America over the period 1988-91. They come from the International Social Survey ...
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IT Control in the Australian public sector: an international comparison
... A questionnaire was developed that first sought demographic details, and then asked respondents to assess the maturity level of control for each IT process (ISACA 2003). For example, respondents were asked to tick one ...
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An International Comparison of India’s Information Technology Environment
... Noor Hazlina Ahmad, T Ramayah, Carlene Wilson and Liz Kummerow (2010), Is Entrepreneurial Competency and Business Success Relationship Contingent upon Business Environment, International Journal of Entrepreneurial ...
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International comparison of building energy performance standards
... In addition, a number of communities have adopted local mandatory energy codes or building codes that contain energy chapters, such as the International Residential Code (IRC). For example, the Maricopa ...
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Taxation and the Australian superannuation system: An international comparison
... This study provides an examination of the Australian superannuation system and demonstrates the taxation burden applied to Australian superannuation. Using Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA as a basis for ...
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment. An International Comparison
... Our measure for employment protection legislation (EPL) is taken from Allard (2005a). Her work is based on the OECD methodology and extended by reviewing the ILO’s International Encyclopedia for Labor Law and ...
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Efficiency and Foreign Ownership in Banking: An International Comparison
... of comparison, Cavallo and Rossi (2001) examine cost inefficiency and scale and scope economies of six European banks, namely France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and UK, found an average inefficiency ...
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The tax wedge in Slovenia: international comparison and policy recommendations
... Compared to OECD countries, EU15 coun- tries and the new EU members Slovenia has a very high tax wage on labor (for single in- dividual without children at the income level of the averag[r] ...
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An international comparison of the outcomes of environmental regulation
... championing international agreements that would result in other jurisdictions adopting environmental regulations of a comparative nature (Kelemen and Vogel ...
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An International Comparison of Employee Training
... 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) to examine employee training in the seven participating countries: Canada, the United States, Switzer- land, the Netherlands, Poland, Ger- many, and ...consistent ...
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Unhealthy Behaviours: An International Comparison
... the international standard guidelines to prevent NCDs, it is reasonable to set the minimum deviation from the correct energy, total fat, and protein intake equal to ...
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