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Key indicators show Germany belonging to the countries in the OECD with strong innovation activity even though some … technologies, such as ICT and biotechnology, as innovation activities continue to focus on sectors, such as machinery and … ...<BR><P>Selon les principaux indicateurs, l’Allemagne est l’un des pays de l’OCDE où l’activité d’innovation est soutenue …
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Increasing productivity growth through innovation is a key to raising living standards. Although R&D intensity in Japan …. The innovation system, which developed during the catchingup process, is largely input-driven and focused on incremental … innovation based on closed and stable corporate and employment systems. However, this approach is less appropriate in the current …
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Enhancing growth through more innovation has become a priority for Austrian policy makers in line with European … policies as laid down in the Lisbon Agenda. This paper discusses Austria’s innovation performance, its innovation policies, and … general framework conditions for innovation and growth. Austria has increased its R&D spending as a share of GDP over the last …
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factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a number of Korean firms are at …. Innovation also requires policies to ensure the supply of high-quality human capital through reforms of tertiary education. This ….oecd.org/eco/surveys/korea).<P>Maintenir une forte croissance grâce à l'innovation : Réforme des système de R-D et d'éducation<BR>Les apports de main-d’oeuvre et …
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This paper explores the role of macroeconomic factors and structural policies in shaping the distribution of labour income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy can also have an important influence on inequality...
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Over the past decades, top incomes have soared, especially in the English-speaking countries. Despite a considerable amount of research on top income developments, there is still substantial disagreement about the causes for their rapid increase. Potential explanations include changes in...
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This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...
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We propose a new method to analyse the changing skills structure of employment in countries based on the input-output structure of the world economy. Demand for jobs, characterized by skill type and industry of employment, is driven by changes in technology, trade and consumption. Using...
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Despite a general trend of increasing labour income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity and even direction of these changes across OECD countries. These stylized facts have led to numerous studies about the main determinants of labour income inequality and, as a...
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Estonia has already experienced many benefits of increasing international integration, most obviously in significant convergence. From the Russian crisis in 1998 to the great recession in 2009 Estonia gained an impressive 20% in GDP per capita relative to the EU27 average in PPPs. Like the other...
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