Austria

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Briefing note for OECD Health Data 2006: AUSTRIA

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26-Jun-2006

Total health spending accounted for 9.6% of GDP in Austria in 2004, slightly higher than the OECD average of 8.9%.

Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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20-Jun-2006

John Potter; Gabriela Miranda

Explores the success of major innovation and entrepreneurship clusters in OECD countries, the challenges they now face in sustaining their positions and the lessons for other places seeking to build successful clusters.

PISA 2000: Sample Weight Problems in Austria (Education Working Paper No. 5)

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09-Jun-2006

The comparability problems resulting from the inadequate coverage of the PISA target population in the Austrian PISA 2000 assessment and the student weights for analysing its data are described here. See also www.bmbwk.gv.at/pisa

Government R&D Funding and Company Behaviour: Measuring Behavioural Additionality

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08-Jun-2006

This publication explores the emerging concept of behavioural additionality (how government funding of business R&D affects the behaviour of firms) and summarises results of a multinational effort to measure it.

Intergovernmental transfers: update of National Accounts data

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16-May-2006

Tables containing a simplified version of National Accounts data on intergovernmental transfers: general transfers and tranfers by government function.

ICT Diffusion to Business: National Peer Reviews: Austria

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14-Apr-2006

Austria is in the middle of OECD countries in ICT indicators. Policy aims to increase competitiveness and tackle market distortions and failures by liberalising network services, incentives to private R&D, and initiatives for ICT skills and diffusion, but co-ordination remains a complex task.

Nuclear Power in NEA Member Countries

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10-Apr-2006

These profiles cover the nuclear power situation in each country, the national laws and regulations covering the peaceful use of nuclear energy, current issues and developments and related links.

Austria's Information Security Initiatives

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17-Mar-2006

The OECD and its 30 member countries are committed to encouraging and developing a global "culture of security". This page collates Austria's initiatives to implement the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks: Towards a Culture of Security.

Austria 2004 - Tax-benefit country chapter - B&W

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02-Mar-2006

The “Country Chapters” provide detailed descriptions of tax and benefit rules in a consistent format across countries, summaries of policy trends, and example calculations of benefit entitlements and tax burdens.

Austria - Phase 2: Report on Implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

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22-Feb-2006

Evaluation by the OECD Working Group on Bribery of the application in practice of its laws against the bribery of foreign public officials in Austria.