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31-Jan-2012
Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that educational performance remains static, uneven and strongly related to parents’ income and background. Better educational performance could improve labour market outcomes, raise growth, lower the consequences of a disadvantaged background and increase social mobility.
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31-Jan-2012
Using empirical evidence from panel analysis of current account dynamics and of bilateral trade balances, the paper argues that the large German current account surplus during the 2000s can be explained by an increasing gap between productivity growth in manufacturing vis-à-vis services. Such a gap is due not only to improvements in the manufacturing sector but also to a significant slowdown of productivity growth in services.
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31-Jan-2012
A carbon intensive energy system in the Czech Republic contributes to one of the highest ratios of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to GDP in the OECD.
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24-Jan-2012
Switzerland’s recovery has been broadly balanced but the drastic appreciation threatens exports. At the same time, there is a risk that a housing bubble could develop linked to unusually low interest rates. This survey discusses policies that would help Switzerland deal with this situation.
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24-Jan-2012
Despite some deleveraging, the Big-2 Swiss banks remain too-big-to-fail, representing a major potential risk for the economy. This survey discusses to which extent the recently approved legislation to address the “too-big-to-fail” problem will be able to reduce these risks.
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24-Jan-2012
There is scope for Switzerland to increase growth and equity through reforms of the tax system on all levels of government. See this survey of how this could be achieved in detail.
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24-Jan-2012
While the level of greenhouse gas emissions is low in Switzerland, meeting emission reduction targets with the existing policies will be difficult. This survey discusses how Switzerland could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a more cost effective way.
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02-Jan-2012
In the 16 years since the OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation, a great many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper, expanding on Annex 1.A1 in the 2011 OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation, provides a summary tabulation of the state of implementation of a large number of these past Survey recommendations.
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02-Jan-2012
The Czech fiscal position is generally sound and policy making is prudent. However, the fiscal framework was not strong enough to contain spending in the upturn and it would benefit from independent budget oversight. An anchor for the fiscal policy would be helpful, in the form of an explicit debt target coupled with corresponding spending ceilings and deficit targets.
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23-Dec-2011
The effective retirement age is a crucial determinant of the sustainability of pension systems. Disability pension is becoming a more important exit from the labour market as more general early retirement options are closed. This workshop deals with two major issues: 1) Introducing the economic dependency ratio as a pension system sustainability indicator; and 2) Understanding the way into disability: The case of Austria. Finally a social partner consensus is presented.
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on 23-Jun-2006
This Seminar is part of the EDRC Outreach Programme. Experts from the OECD Economics Department, the EBRD and independent academics discuss the scope for improving policies concerning oil exploration, production and transportation in the CIS. While production and reserves are small relative to OPEC they make a big contribution to covering the soaring demand from emerging economies and the United States. A re-emerging dirigisme throughout the region risks imposing a burden on CIS growth potential and limit the regions capacity to reduce OPEC monopoly power.
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