Reforming social transfers

OECD Observer

Volumn , Issue 199, 1996, Pages 28-31

  MacFarlan, Maitland ^a   Oxley, Howard ^b  

^a Central and Eastern Europe Division

^b OECD ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT   (France)

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EID: 8644235090     PISSN: 00297054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (11)

1. For an analysis of pension systems. see Willi Leibfritz and Dehorab Roseveare. Aging Populations and Government Budgets. The OECD Observer. No. 197. December 1995/January 1996.
2. See pp. 32-34.
3. The statistical data in article are taken from Social Expenditure Statistics of OECD Member Countries Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers. No. 17. OECD Publications, Paris, 1996.
4. OECD Economic Outlook. No. 57. OECD Publications, Paris, June 1995.
5. Both Sweden and the Netherlands have reduced public spending on sick pay by obliging firms to pay for the first weeks of sick leave; Denmark has recently introduced a waiting period.
6. The OECD Jobs Study OECD Publications, Paris, 1994.
7. Willi Leibfritz and Deborah Roseveare, 'Aging Populations and Government Budgets', The OECD Observer, No. 197, December 1995/January 1996
8. OECD Economic Outlook, No. 57, 0ECD Publications, Paris, June 1995
9. New Orientations for Social Policy, 1994
10. The OECD Jobs Study, OECD Publications, Paris, 1994
11. Howard Oxley and John Martin, 'Controlling Government Spending and Deficits: Trends in the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s', OECD Economic Studies, No. 17 Autumn 1991.