Trade and Employment: The Case of Denmark and Spain

08-Nov-2011

Elena Arnal

Greater trade openness does not necessarily have an adverse effect on employment, and labour market mobility and flexibility can help countries gain from globalisation, according to this comparison of Denmark and Spain.

Environmental Enforcement in Decentralised Governance Systems: Toward a Nationwide Level Playing Field - Environment Working Paper No. 34

02-Jul-2011

Eugene Mazur

This report analyses approaches to managing environmental compliance monitoring and enforcement in several OECD countries with decentralised systems of environmental governance.

Restoring fiscal sustainability in Spain

22-Mar-2011

Pierre Beynet, Andrés Fuentes, Robert Gillingham and Robert Hagemann

Spain’s government has introduced ambitious consolidation measures, which should yield a sizeable improvement in discretionary fiscal efforts.

Reforming the labour market in Spain

23-Feb-2011

Anita Wölfl and Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti

After steady employment growth since the 1990s, Spain has experienced the sharpest increase in unemployment among OECD countries during the crisis, amplified by structural problems of the labour market.

Spain: Thematic Review on Risk Management in Agriculture

17-Feb-2011

Jesús Antón

Spain's agricultural insurance system must evolve to allow more competition, differentiate marketable and catastrophic risks and reduce subsidies for marketable lines. Spain should also develop a framework for catastrophic risk and facilitate a wider choice of risk management tools for farmers.

OECD Health Working Paper No. 55: Mortality Amenable to Health Care in 31 OECD Countries: Estimates and Methodological Issues

07-Feb-2011

Juan G. Gay, Valerie Paris, Marion Devaux and Michael de Looper

The mortality amenable to health care is defined as a possible indicator to measure the health care systems performance in preventing premature deaths that can be avoided by appropriate health care intervention. This paper assesses the feasibility of using this indicator in OECD countries.

Policies towards a sustainable use of water in Spain

02-Feb-2011

Andrés Fuentes

The limits for extraction of natural resources have largely been reached and climate change is expected to continue lowering natural water endowments markedly in future especially in dry areas of the country

Successful Practices and Policies to Promote Regulatory Reform and Entrepreneurship at the Subnational Level

01-Apr-2010

Jacobo P. García Villarreal

This working paper is part of the OECD-Mexico initiative “Strengthening of Economic Competition and Regulatory Improvement for Competitiveness”. It summarises the findings of several case studies on best practices to promote regulatory reform and entrepreneurship at the sub-national level.

DEV Working Papers 280: Coherence of Development Policies: Ecuador's Economic Ties with Spain and their Development Impact

30-Jul-2009

Iliana Olivié

This study provides a general analysis of economic relations between Spain, as a donor of official development assistance (ODA), and Ecuador, as a partner and recipient of development aid.

Raising education outcomes in Spain

18-Feb-2009

Andrés Fuentes

Impressive progress has been made in raising participation in early childhood education as well as tertiary educational attainment over the past 30 years. However, the inflow of poorly educated youth into the labour market is unusually heavy for a high income country.