Die vorliegende Studie von Britta Utz thematisiert ein hochaktuelles Thema. Es geht um die Auswertung der ersten fünf Jahre Erfahrungen mit den Leitsätzen für multinationale Unterneh-men, die im Rahmen der OECD im Jahre 2000 vereinbart worden sind. Die Unterzeichnerstaa-ten der OECD haben in...

In the 1990's, demographic and economic prospects obliged European countries to reform pensions. More redently, the European COmmission, the OCED and policy makers have been concerned to take measures which encourage silver workers to work later either in their end-of.career company or...

OECD has conducted work on the efficiency of financial regulation over the last several years. Committee on Financial Markets (CMF) and Insurance and Private Pensions Committee (IPPC). Perception of overregulation in financial sector...

The world economy and the OECD countries in particular are currently undergoinga phase of rapid and fundamental economic changes. Countries that inthe post-war period have enjoyed strong comparative advantages (mainly) builton high quality production in the manufacturing sector, are now...

Domestic technical measures such as SPS and TBTs can enhance import demand viainformation disclosure and quality improvement, or hamper foreign export supply via imposingsizeable compliance costs, or both. The traditional gravity equation model estimates the neteffect of these measures on...

Recent work on U.S. data calls into question the ability of simple Phillips curvemodels to forecast inflation. This paper asks whether there is similar evidence of abreakdown in the forecasting ability of Phillips curve models in other OECD countries.The results suggests that the ability of a...

Inflation rates in a number of OECD follow a common trend over the past four decades: inflation starts out low in the 1960s, rises for a time before peaking in the 1970s or early 1980s, and then falls back to initial levels. This similarity in the behavior of trend inflation suggests that any...

Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardlysurprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECDGDP in 2005; and this pension spending effort is set to increase significantly over the comingdecades in response to...

Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht beschäftigt sich mit dem eHealth Benchmarking in Europa. Dabei wird insbesondere auf einige vorläufige Ergebnisse und dem Blick nach vorn eingegangen.

The dissertation is about what are new work environments, why measure it, what to measure, the challenge, approach chosen, state of the art in research, a framework for benchmarking NWEs and next steps.