Public spending efficiency in the OECD : benchmarking health care, education and general administration / Richard Dutu, Patrizio Sicari
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: OECD. OECD Economics Department working papers ; no. 1278Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing, 2016Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 26 Seiten) : IllustrationenSubject(s): Genre/Form: DOI: DOI: 10.1787/5jm3st732jnq-enOnline resources: Summary: In many OECD countries changes in demography and health conditions are putting pressure on public finance. To prevent further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending in a sample of OECD countries around 2012, focussing on health care, secondary education and general public services. The DEA model has a two input-one output structure, with at least one of the variables representing a composite indicator controlling for country-specific factors (socio-economic environment and life-style factors, for example). We find wide dispersion in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input efficiency.PPN: PPN: 876107579Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-13-SOC | ZDB-13-SOC-ebookNo physical items for this record
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