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21-May-2007
The services sector makes an important contribution to employment growth, productivity and innovation in OECD countries. This document looks specifically at business support services and their strong linkages with other sectors. It aims to identify factors, institutions and policies that affect the delivery of business support services and that could enhance growth prospects more broadly. It focuses mainly on issues related to productivity, standardisation and regulation, and trade.
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01-Sep-2006
Input-output (I-O) analysis has been around for nearly 70 years, and although its use has ebbed and flowed, it has always retained a dedicated core of users in the worldwide research community. Recently however, there seems to have been a notable increase in the use of input-output tables in empirical analyses addressing a wide range of policy issues. This paper is primarily aimed at a non-technical audience and focuses on the applications and important policy questions that can benefit from the availability of harmonised input-output tables.
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06-Mar-2006
Despite the attention that offshore outsourcing currently demands in the public media, there is little empirical evidence on its economic impact. As a consequence of rising fears of job losses associated with the phenomenon, most existing research on the subject is primarily concerned with addressing related labour market issues. The impacts on productivity, however, have received only little attention. This paper surveys the empirical literature on offshore outsourcing and its productivity effects.
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05-Dec-2005
With over 250 graphs, this book helps identify the economic activities of member countries that are under foreign control, and more particularly the contribution of multinational enterprises to growth, employment, productivity, labour compensation, R&D, technology diffusion and international trade. In so doing, it gauges the intensity and magnitude of the globalisation process, and sheds new light on financial, technological and trade interdependencies within OECD countries. This new volume builds upon the OECD Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators, published in June 2005.
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31-Aug-2005
Firstly, this study quantifies the contribution of foreign affiliates to productivity growth in OECD countries using a growth accounting approach. The analysis shows how much of this contribution derives from an increase in the employment share of foreign affiliates in the host country relative to an increase in the productivity of existing foreign affiliates. The study also compares the presence of foreign affiliates across OECD countries.
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02-Jun-2005
Although globalisation's impact on national economies is well recognised, little quantitative information is available to shed light on the issues involved in debates on the subject. The purpose of this new handbook is not to evaluate the many consequences of economic globalisation, but rather to measure its extent and intensity. The handbook defines the concepts and puts forward guidelines for data collection and the fine-tuning of economic globalisation indicators. A set of indicators, based on the handbook, was released later this year.
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