This paper estimates and discusses some of the potential labour market implications arising from the rapid ageing of … government employees in a number of OECD countries. Under alternative scenarios for future public employment policies, available …. Alternatively, productivity in the government sector would have to increase substantially.<P>Conséquences sur le marché du travail …

-manufacturing sectors could boost aggregate labour productivity levels by several per cent over the next decade in many OECD countries, and … legislation could also raise productivity growth for a while in many OECD and non-OECD G20 countries, although the effects are … systems could raise employment rates by several percentage points in a number of OECD countries over a 10-year horizon. Large …

and/or duration of unemployment benefits, cut labour tax wedges and relax employment protection legislation. Past reforms …

declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been … in the informal sector, where workers are not covered by social security arrangements.<P> Productivity of the … would increase productivity and make growth more inclusive, while contributing to improved current account balance. In …

Despite sound policies and institutions, Danish productivity has grown modestly over the past decade, both historically …

, which has provided a significant boost to growth, productivity, competitiveness, profits and (more controversially …) aggregate employment. Indeed, among the older EU member states, Austria has benefited the most from the transition of the …

to come increasingly from productivity gains, and resources will have to shift towards activities that rely more on … pensionable age will also help counter the effects of ageing. Lifting national saving, partly by targeting a higher public saving …

the rise in life expectancy would reduce pension costs and increase older workers’ employment, provided it is accompanied … increase the labour force participation of youth, childbearing age women and the long-term unemployed. Finally, ageing should …

rate by age) are applied to the two schemes. The impacts of different shocks (productivity, migration and longevity) on the …, changing the up-rating and increasing the retirement age) to cope with the ageing shock are analysed and compared …