“…Also, easing labour market regulation would further support SME development. A large share of small businesses consists of self-employed with no employees. …”

“…Les niveaux de vie s'en sont trouvés améliorés et, conjugués à un accès plus large à l'éducation et aux prestations sociales, ont permis des progrès notables sur le plan social…”

“…The results also highlight large cross-country differences in the growth potential of young firms, pointing to the role played by national policies in enabling successful firms to create jobs…”

“…This paper investigates the impact of policies and institutions on health expenditures for a large panel of OECD countries for the period 2000-10. …”

“…In the meantime, the great need for maintaining the large stock of structural protection measures has been overlooked and vulnerability might increase because of that. …”

“…The Dutch mental health system is highly institutionalised and has a large number of psychiatric beds compared to other OECD countries. …”

“…Despite many examples of good practice, large weaknesses exist in many countries’ national career guidance services, according to extensive research conducted by the OECD, and by the Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Training Foundation on behalf of the European Commission. …”

“…It provided a detailed analysis of the technical and economic aspects of load-following with nuclear power plants, and summarises the impact of load-following on the operational mode, fuel performance and ageing of large equipment components of the plant…”

“…This paper outlines how the concept of LEDS has evolved in the climate policy discourse and explores how it could usefully add to the large number of existing strategies, action plans, and reporting documents that are already available. …”

“…The tax-to-GDP ratio rose steadily in most EU countries up to the late 1990s, largely reflecting a sustained expansion of public sector commitments to welfare provision. …”

“…The available figures show that the international recruitment of health professionals does not play a decisive role in France. A large share of foreign-trained health workers come from EU countries, in particular because of the European legislation aimed at facilitating recognition of diplomas of EU nationals for most health professions. …”

“…Regulatory heterogeneity is found to have a relatively large impact on trade through commercial presence. …”

“…It is important to understand that biofuels are not always “bio”- and in some situations large scale production will lead to a larger over-all use of fossil fuel and thereby a larger emission of carbon dioxide. …”

“…Governments and stakeholders in both origin and destination countries have largely recognized their mutual interest in safeguarding labor migrants. …”

“…Iceland has managed its large fishing industry in a sustainable and profitable way. …”

“…Bayesian Model Averaging techniques are used to analyse how robustly it is possible to identify factors that may lead to the bursting of asset price bubbles in OECD economies. A large set of variables put forward in the literature is assessed, as well as interactions of these variables with estimates of asset price misalignments to evaluate the importance of the different channels postulated by theory. …”

“…However, most existing – and widely used – cross-country estimates of informality suffer from large measurement problems, which reduce the reliability of existing empirical evidence on the extent and drivers of informality. …”

“…Scope for making regulation of product markets more competition-friendly is large in the network industries. While sector-specific regulators have been introduced, their independence needs to be strengthened. …”

“…While seemingly negligible, this increase hides the large disparities that are observed across countries (or regions) and products. …”

“…However, it is divided into a small flexible segment and a large more rigid segment, where the adjustment burden of external shocks falls disproportionally on the first group. …”