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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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The German Labour Market: Preparing for the Future
Hüfner, Felix; Klein, Caroline - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
The strength of the German labour market response to the financial crisis of 2008-09 demonstrated the benefits of past labour market reforms, which raised work incentives, improved job matching and increased working hour flexibility. Going forward, the government should build on this success and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276953
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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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Raising Greece's Potential Output Growth
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2005
This Working Paper looks at structural policies which would improve Greece’s long-term economic performance and help speed economic and social convergence with average European Union member countries. It focuses on a number of key areas which are particularly important for rapid growth as they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444703
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How to Reduce Sickness Absences in Sweden : Lessons from International Experience
Rae, David - 2005
. This paper describes the problem and looks at what other countries have done to reduce absenteeism. It emphasises a mutual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446240
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The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage inequality: A symptom of low job mobility?
Criscuolo, Chiara - 2021
role of cross-firm dispersion in productivity in explaining dispersion in firm wage premia, as well as the factors shaping … the link between productivity and wages at the firm level. The results suggest that around 15% of cross-firm differences … in productivity are passed on to differences in firm wage premia. The degree of pass-through is systematically larger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630368
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Boosting Productivity in Korea's Service Sector
Jones, Randall - 2009
Labour productivity growth in the service sector has been low relative to manufacturing. This is explained in part by … inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Increasing productivity growth in the service sector, which accounts for 67% of … boost productivity in service industries with high growth potential, such as telecommunications and financial and business. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444312
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Product and Labour Markets Interactions in OECD Countries
Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Bassanini, Andrea; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2001
This paper analyses several of the cross-market effects of policies aimed at influencing outcomes in product and labour markets. Focusing on subsets of OECD countries, we look at the implications of product market competition for industry wages and overall employment, and the implications of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445146