Staying Competitive in the Global Economy: Compendium of Studies on Global Value Chains

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11-Jun-2008

This volume brings together several studies on globalisation carried out over the past few years. The work aimed at strengthening the evidence base on globalisation of value chains, which should ultimately enable the development of policies to address key concerns.

STructural ANalysis (STAN) Database

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27-May-2008

The STAN database provides analysts and researchers with a comprehensive tool for analysing industrial performance at a relatively detailed level of activity across countries.

OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2008

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24-Apr-2008

The present edition constitutes the 2007-2008 update of the wide range of  indicators which were published in 2006 but also includes new indicators and provides notes as to the measurement challenges and the data choices that were made.

Measuring Globalisation: Activities of Multinationals, 2007/2008 edition

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16-Apr-2008

This publication presents detailed data on the industrial activity of multinationals in OECD countries. In an era of globalisation, these data highlight the increasing importance of multinationals in the economies of host countries. Time series cover 23 countries for the period 2000-2004.

OECD Innovation Microdata Project

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21-Feb-2008

The OECD Innovation Microdata project is the first large-scale attempt at exploiting firm-level data from innovation surveys for economic analysis in a harmonised way.

Input-Output Tables (2006 edition)

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28-Nov-2007

The OECD Input-Output tables (2006 edition Revision 1) consist of matrices of inter-industrial transaction flows of goods and services (domestically produced and imported) in current prices, for 28 OECD countries and 9 non-member countries.

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2007

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25-Oct-2007

Bringing together over 200 internationally comparable quality indicators to explore the progress of national innovation strategies and recent developments in science, technology and industry.

Offshoring and Employment: Trends and Impacts

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13-Jul-2007

This report provides new insights into offshoring, which has become a fact of life for business, and describes the wide-ranging effects that offshoring can have on domestic employment -- the positive, as well as the negative.

Staying Competitive in the Global Economy: Moving Up the Value Chain (Synthesis Report)

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06-Jun-2007

The globalisation of production has changed the industrial structure within OECD countries, and in some sectors blunted their competitiveness. Another major consequence has been fears of job losses, due to outsourcing and offshoring. How should OECD countries respond?

Input-Output Analysis in an Increasingly Globalised World: Applications of OECD's Harmonised International Tables (STI Working Paper 2006/7)

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01-Sep-2006

by Brian Wixted, Norihiko Yamano and Colin Webb

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, such as those developed over the years by the OECD.

STI Scoreboard

Over 200 graphs provide a comprehensive picture of countries' performance in science, technology and innovation.

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2007

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This compendium presents a large number of indicators on productivity and includes methodological notes which describe the measurement challenges, data choices, and remaining measurement problems.

OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2008