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03-Oct-2008
Rafał Kierzenkowski
Following many years of underinvestment, renovating and building new transport infrastructure is an important policy priority that would increase labour mobility and improve Poland’s competitiveness.
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05-Aug-2008
Sean M. Dougherty
This paper looks at the impact of employment protection legislation and related regulation on the dynamics of employment in the organized sector of the economy, using newly constructed measures of national regulation and state labour reforms.
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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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01-Apr-2008
Paul Conway and Richard Herd
This paper uses the OECD’s indicators of product market regulation (PMR) to assess the extent to which India’s regulatory environment is supportive of competition in markets for goods and services. Economics Department Working Paper No. 599.
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01-Apr-2008
Paul Conway, Richard Herd and Thomas Chalaux
This paper examines varies areas of India´s fiscal policy, in particular fiscal discipline, the structure of government spending, the tax system and fiscal federalism. Economics Department Working Paper No. 600.
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28-Sep-2007
Espen Erlandsen and Jens Lundsgaard
The economic crisis in the early 1990s prompted action on reforming the Swedish welfare state and its institutions, including deregulation of a wide range of product markets. Economics Department Working Paper No. 577.
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19-Sep-2007
Jens Høj, Miguel Jimenez, Maria Maher, Giuseppe Nicoletti, and Michael Wise
Based on 18 country reviews performed over the 2003-2005 period, this paper examines, the cross-country differences in policy approaches to product market competition and their consequences for product market rents.
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05-Jul-2007
Sébastien Jean and Miguel Jiménez
Economics Department Working Paper 563 assesses the consequences of immigration for natives’ unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the role played by product and labour market policies in the economy’s adjustment to immigration inflows.
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05-Jul-2007
Sébastien Jean, Orsetta Causa, Miguel Jimenez and Isabelle Wanner
Immigration pressures are increasing in most OECD countries. Economics Department Working Paper 562 investigates the consequences of immigration for natives’ labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants’ integration in the host country labour market.
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23-Jan-2007
William Tompson
This paper examines the state of Russia’s public administration and the government’s reform plans. Economics Department Working Paper 536.
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Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2008
