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between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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The Spanish economy experienced significantly weaker labour productivity growth than other OECD economies and failed to catch up with the most advanced economies in the period 1996-2007. In recent years labour productivity growth has accelerated, but this recovery is likely to be due to cyclical...
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employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour … reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall …
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The nature, content and milieu of work – i.e. the quality of the working environment – matter in many ways for people, firms and society as a whole. There is a great deal of evidence to show clear associations between job quality and the health of workers, their ability to successfully...
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This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include the countries in the second wave of OECD Survey of Adult Skills, with a special focus on New Zealand. We find that the percentage of workers who are mismatched in terms of skills...
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employment where they are most productive, in the process raising their incomes. Reskilling can be improved by boosting the links …-term unemployment and low employment rates of older workers. Improving life-long learning will allow workers to adapt to a changing … economic environment and thereby contribute to their own well-being. Adjusting wage determination and broadening labour market …
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Over the last decades Argentina’s living standards have lost ground relative to other developed and emerging economies. Putting Argentina on a path to stronger, inclusive and job-rich growth requires boosting productivity and strengthening investment through wide-ranging structural reforms....
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OECD countries and their regions are ageing fast. In principle, the negative impact of ageing on the growth rate of per capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth required to maintain per capita GDP levels constant...
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With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...
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Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over...
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