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Employment Patterns in OECD Countries : Reassessing the Role of Policies and Institutions

Bassanini, Andrea - 2006

This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/pricesetting models, are estimated using cross-country/time-series data from 21 OECD...

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Employment Patterns in OECD Countries : Reassessing the Role of Policies and Institutions

Bassanini, Andrea - 2006

This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross-country/time-series data from 21 OECD...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445225

Coping with creative destruction : reducing the costs of firm exit

Andrews, Dan; Saia, Alessandro - 2017

A policy framework that does not unduly inhibit the creative destruction process is vital to sustaining productivity growth. Yet, a key question is what happens to workers who lose their jobs due to this process and what are the policies that minimise the costs of worker displacement?...

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Going national : implementing the OECD jobs strategy

Crivellaro, Elena; Hijzen, Alexander; Schwellnus, Cyrille - 2019

This paper provides guidance for developing country-specific policy recommendations from the broad policy principles of the new OECD Jobs Strategy. To this end, it identifies countries’ main policy challenges and develops broad policy packages to address them. It highlights the importance of...

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Argentina's economic reforms of the 1990s in contemporary and historical perspective

Cavallo, Domingo - 2017

Why has Argentina suffered so much political and economic instability? How could Argentina, once one of the wealthiest … countries in the world, failed to meet its potential over decades? What lessons can we take from Argentina's successes and … failures? Argentina’s economy is - irresistibly - fascinating. Argentina's economic history - its crises and its triumphs …

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Economic Policymaking in a Conflict Society : The Argentine Case

Mallon, Richard D. - 1975

Biographical note: MallonRichard D.: Richard D. Mallon is a Fellow Emeritus of the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has provided macroeconomic policy and planning advice in fifteen countries.

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Defying the 'juncker curse' : can reformist governments be re-elected?

Buti, Marco; Turrini, Alessandro; Noord, Paul Joseph van den - 2008

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The new political economy of Southeast Asia

Rasiah, Rajah (ed.); Schmidt, Johannes Dragsbæk (ed.) - 2010

Introduction / Rajah Rasiah and Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt -- Industrialization in the second-tier NIEs / Rajah Rasiah -- The 1997 economic crisis, reform and Southeast Asian growth / Chris Dixon -- Revisiting shared growth and examining horizontal inequality / Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam...

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Microeconomic Reform in Britain : Delivering Opportunities for All

Balls, Ed (ed.); Grice, Joe (ed.); O'Donnell, Gus (ed.) - 2004

Microeconomic Reform in Britain: Delivering Opportunities for All provides a comprehensive guide to the extensive microeconomic reforms implemented over the last 6 years to realise the UK Government's goals: a stronger more enterprising economy and a fairer society. This companion volume to...

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The consequences of trade union power erosion : declining union power would not be an overwhelming cause for concern if not for rising wage inequality and the loss of worker voice

Addison, John T. - 2014

The micro- and macroeconomic effects of the declining power of trade unions have been hotly debated by economists and policymakers. Nevertheless, the empirical evidence shows that the impact of the decline on economic aggregates and firm performance is not an overwhelming cause for concern....

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