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procedures, internationalisation needs to be fostered, and competition strengthened. In addition, the negative impact of the …
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Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened … room to boost competition in Sweden’s large and decentralised public sector and in its interactions with the private sector … competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport …
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The manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been in the informal sector, where workers are not...
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This paper presents evidence on firm demographics and firm survival for a group of ten OECD countries. For each country a dataset of sectoral indicators of firm dynamics has been created using information from business registers. The patterns of firm entry, exit, survival and employment growth...
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markets. Focusing on subsets of OECD countries, we look at the implications of product market competition for industry wages …
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Sweden than in the euro area, United Kingdom and United States. The pass-through from money market rates to retail rates is …
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Sweden has developed an extensive and sound policy framework to limit greenhouse gas emissions. It is now one of the … from emissions growth. However, as Sweden has already significantly lowered its greenhouse gas emissions, the cost of … reducing them further could be very high, making it urgent to improve the cost-effectiveness of Sweden’s climate change …
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After the onset of the crisis, unemployment in Sweden increased markedly, though much less than expected and than … Economic Survey of Sweden (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Sweden).<P>Limiter le Chômage de Longue Durée et la Non-Participation à l …
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Sweden is a very egalitarian country but inequalities have risen and some groups are poorly integrated into the labour …
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Extensive structural reforms since the early 1990s have strengthened the resilience of the Swedish economy to shocks. However, more needs to be done to better manage near-term risks and ensure that growth remains sustainable in the longer run. Reforming the housing market would reduce the risks...
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