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17-Nov-2008
Christian Gianella, Isabell Koske, Elena Rusticelli and Olivier Chatal
This paper analyses the determinants of structural unemployment rates in a two-stage approach.
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29-Oct-2008
Annabelle Mourougane and Lukas Vogel
This paper examines the nature and the length of economic adjustments to selected structural reforms, drawing on a variety of approaches: descriptive analysis and simulations using Dynamic General Equilibrium and macro-economic neo-Keynesian models.
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01-Sep-2008
Anne-Marie Brook
Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them.
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05-Aug-2008
Sean M. Dougherty, Richard Herd, Thomas Chalaux and Abdul Azeez Erumban
India’s growth performance has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but has been uneven across industries and states. The need for further institutional reforms is urgent, focusing on product and labour market regulations at the central and state levels.
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10-Jul-2008
Ekkehard Ernst
The Dutch labour market is functioning well, with employment and labour participation rates above OECD averages. Reintegrating benefit recipients would help to reduce spending on labour market programmes, which is among the highest in the OECD.
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23-Jun-2008
Ekkehard Ernst and Timo Teuber
An overlapping-generations model with search unemployment is calibrated for the Netherlands to assess the impact of tax-benefit reforms on labour supply.
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22-May-2008
Randall S. Jones
Faced with exceptionally rapid population ageing, Korea should address obstacles that lower fertility rates while encouraging higher labour force participation, particularly among women.
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22-May-2008
Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon
Although Korea has become more integrated in the world economy over the past decade, it still ranks low in terms of import penetration, the stock of inward FDI relative to GDP and foreign workers as a share of the labour force.
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16-Apr-2008
D. Contreras, L. de Mello and E. Puentes
Chile’s labour force participation is low by comparison with most countries in the OECD area, especially among females and youths. Economics Department Working Paper 608
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