Boosting Austria's innovation performance

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28-Sep-2007

Willi Leibfritz and Jürgen Janger

Enhancing growth through more innovation has become a priority for Austrian policy makers in line with European policies as laid down in the Lisbon Agenda. This paper discusses Austria’s innovation performance, its innovation policies, and general framework conditions for innovation and growth.

The unemployment impact of immigration in OECD countries

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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.

Migration in OECD countries: labour market impact and integration issues

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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.

Strengthening the integration of Japan in the world economy to benefit more fully from globalisation

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07-Dec-2006

Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon

To lift productivity, Japan needs greater inflows of FDI and more openness to trade and inflows of foreign workers. Economics Department Working Paper 526.

Summary of a workshop on global convergence scenarios: structural and policy issues

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15-May-2006

Nick Vanston (Rapporteur)

Economics Department Working Paper 483. On what basis can global convergence scenarios be designed? To address this issue, the OECD hosted an international workshop where several well-known academic, ...

Strengthening innovation in the Netherlands: making better use of knowledge creation in innovation activities

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16-Feb-2006

David Carey, Ekkehard Ernst, Rebecca Oyomopito and Jelte Theisens

This paper considers ways in which weaknesses in innovation in the Netherlands can be overcome. Economics Department Working Paper 479.

Migration and integration of immigrants in Denmark

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30-Apr-2004

Deborah Roseveare and Martin Jorgensen

Economics Department Working Paper 386. Immigration could offer one way for Denmark to expand its labour supply, thereby lowering the dependency ratio, at least for some time, and easing the task of ensuring fiscal sustainability.

Trends in immigration and economic consequences

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01-Feb-2001

Jonathan Coppel, Jean-Christophe Dumond and Ignazio Visco

Economics Department working paper 284. By Jonathan Coppel, Jean-Christophe Dumond and Ignazio Visco. This paper reviews immigration trends and their economic impacts in a number of OECD countries. While ...