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The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...
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Industrial specialization has important implications for economic performance; therefore, understanding its determinants is of key policy relevance. This paper quantifies the relationship between factor endowments, policies and institutions and patterns of industrial specialisation in production...
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reserves in many countries. The results of the analysis suggest that the levels of trade and domestic financial depth are …
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In the 16 years since the OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation, a great many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper, expanding on Annex 1.A1 in the 2011 OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation,...
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This paper describes the sources and methods used to construct the trade matrices of the OECD trade system. It also … provides an overview of the trade relationships between countries, especially individual OECD countries and the main non … sensitivity to shocks that are transmitted through trade.<P>Les relations commerciales dans le système de commerce de l …
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This paper is making use of the OECD product market regulation (PMR) database to measure the heterogeneity of product market regulation across countries for the whole economy, for the main subcomponents of the PMR indicator and for the internet economy. The heterogeneity within EU countries is...
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technology, trade and consumption. Using structural decomposition analysis, we study the relative importance of these drivers for …
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countries’ growth could be around ⅔ percentage points lower on average, with around ½ percentage point accounted for by trade … turbulence. OECD countries which would be hit hardest include Belgium, Japan and the Netherlands, reflecting mainly strong trade …
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key drivers. The most researched channels include skill-biased technological change, international trade, immigration …
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As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...
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