This report first describes the anti and pro-competitive effects of standards to then analyse the Mexican standardisation process to issue both technical regulations and standards. It also offers an overview of the best regulatory practices in standards setting and a guidance to analyse the...

Schwellenländer wie Indien und China klettern auf der technologischen Leiter scheinbar unaufhaltsam nach oben. Eine der zentralen Fragen der Globalisierung ist nun, ob es Teile der Wertschöpfungskette gibt, die nicht aus den Industrieländern abwandern können. Dieser Breicht liefert neue...

Despite concern about the negative impacts of globalisation on the economies of OECD regions, notably the loss of manufacturing jobs and enterprise relocation, this report presents evidence that region-specific advantages – embedded in specialised firms, skilled labour and innovation capacity...

Unit labour costs are often viewed as a broad measure of (international) price competitiveness. They are defined as the average cost of labour per unit of output produced. They can be expressed as the ratio of total labour compensation per hour worked to output per hour worked (labour...

This dataset includes quarterly unit labour costs, total labour costs, real output, total employment to employees, labour income share ratio, labour productivity and compensation broken down by sectors. Early estimates are available in http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00607-en.

This publication identifies the requirements for successful reallocation of labor and capital to more efficient uses in response to the emergence of new sources of competition, technological change and shifting consumer preferences. At the same time, it focuses on limiting adjustment costs for...