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Labour Market Reform in Germany: How to Improve Effectiveness
Wurzel, Eckhard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several … and active labour market policies can be better geared toward activating the unemployed, while institutional reform of the … labour market performance, underlining the need for a broad based reform approach. This Working Paper relates to the 2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045708
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Adapting the Icelandic Education System to a Changing Environment
Suppanz, Hannes - 2006
This paper reviews Iceland’s performance in skills accumulation against the backdrop of a rapidly changing economic environment and discusses directions for further improvements. Since the late 1990s, the government has considerably raised expenditure on education, which is now among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012442968
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland : Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445638
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Adapting the Icelandic Education System to a Changing Environment
Suppanz, Hannes - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
This paper reviews Iceland’s performance in skills accumulation against the backdrop of a rapidly changing economic environment and discusses directions for further improvements. Since the late 1990s, the government has considerably raised expenditure on education, which is now among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046115
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland: Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew; Kowalski, Przemyslaw - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046206
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480477
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How Does Decentralised Minimum-Wage Setting Affect Unemployment and Informality? : The Case of Indonesia
Comola, Margherita - 2009
The Indonesian labour market is characterised by widespread informality. To some extent, these outcomes can be attributed to a sharp increase in the real value of the minimum wage since 2001, when minimum-wage setting was decentralised to the provincial governments. To test this hypothesis, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446395
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Wage Setting in Finland : Increasing Flexibility in Centralised Wage Agreements
Johansson, Åsa - 2006
The centralised wage agreements have helped to contain inflation. There is evidence that wage increases were more moderate when a central agreement was concluded than in periods when no central agreement was reached. Nevertheless, there is also evidence that centralised wage setting has had some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446438
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The Short-Term Effects of Structural Reforms: An Empirical Analysis
Bouis, Romain; Causa, Orsetta; Demmou, Lilas; Duval, Romain - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Drawing on new empirical analysis of 30 years of structural reforms across the OECD, this paper sheds light on the impact of reforms over time, identifies the horizon over which their full effects materialise, and investigates whether such effects vary with prevailing economic conditions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007419
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Raising Greece's Potential Output Growth
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2005
labour market policies; competition policy reform; the liberalisation of product markets, in particular the energy …, telecommunication and transport sectors; policies to foster entrepreneurship; and financial market reform, including the implementation … of a better corporate governance regime. A number of Annexes provide additional information on the reform of the energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444703