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This paper examines the effect of economic crises on structural unemployment using an Autoregressive Distributed Lags model and accounting for the role of institutional settings. Analysing an unbalanced panel of 30 OECD economies from 1970 to 2008, we found that downturns have, on average, a...
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situation des marchés du travail. Ce document examine l’évolution récente du marché du travail, quelquesunes des principales …
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This paper looks at the empirical determinates of foreign currency reserve holdings across a panel of around 130 countries between 1980 and 2008. The paper builds on the existing literature by adopting a panel error-correction model specification and by extending the sample to include the recent...
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this paper do not seem to apply to the most recent crisis, partly because the labour market situation did not deteriorate …
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The financial crisis revealed flaws in pre-crisis policy frameworks. Particular gaps included the failure of monetary … manoeuvre in event of a crisis. During the crisis, the clear pre-crisis assignments of policy instruments to objectives became … exit from the crisis, policy decisions continue to be made in an environment of high uncertainty. In the near term …
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investment. While GDP growth was one of the strongest in OECD, employment did not reach the pre-crisis level and unemployment …
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decade, before the apparition of the current crisis. An analysis of the deterioration in competitiveness points to supply …, promoting innovation, reducing the tax burden, boosting competition and creating favourable conditions for businesses to grow …
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Strengthening the innovation system in the Netherlands is a priority for raising productivity growth, which has been … sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries according to the EIS … Summary Innovation Index. The main weaknesses are in business R&D intensity, the share of the population with tertiary …
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framework factors that provide the most effective means of supporting innovation. The evidence suggests that there is a clear … account. Some policies that offer benefits for current innovation also have costs that could adversely affect future …&D intensities over time.<P>L'innovation dans le secteur des entreprises<BR>Ce document fait la synthèse des principales conclusions …
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Despite some weakening in the 1990s, partly due to sluggish trend growth, the Swiss innovation performance has been … very strong. There are, however, areas in which policy reforms could strengthen innovation further and help Switzerland … services sectors, which becomes more crucial to sustaining high domestic innovation in a context where large firms are …
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