|
|
News & Events
News
|
30-Jun-2008
Energy represents a major sustainable development challenge for Canada. Efforts should be concentrated on designing and implementing an emissions trading scheme compatible with corresponding systems abroad. Effective and efficient systems of regulation and taxation are essential to facilitate the timely realisation of energy supply plans.
|
|
27-Jun-2008
Speech delivered by Jørgen Elmeskov, Acting Head of the OECD Economics Department, at the Wirtschaftsrat Economic conference: Growth engine world economy: Seizing chances - controlling risks which took place on 18 June 2008 in Berlin, Germany.
|
|
25-Jun-2008
Portugal can benefit more from globalisation. This requires further reducing the cost of doing business, promoting competition and improving regulations in infrastructure sectors that provide services to firms.
|
|
25-Jun-2008
Labour market performance deteriorated after 2001. A broad strategy is required to enhance the adaptability of the work force, provide support to displaced workers and upgrade competencies.
|
|
20-Jun-2008
An overlapping-generations model with search unemployment is calibrated for the Netherlands to assess the impact of tax-benefit reforms on labour supply. Several reforms are analysed, in particular the introduction of a flat tax and pension reforms. The model demonstrates the potential of these reforms to raise labour supply.
|
|
11-Jun-2008
Achieving sustainable exploitation of its plentiful energy sources is one of the key challenges Canada will face in the years to come. Indeed, the economy relies considerably on energy based activities whose development has been encouraged by government policies. At the same time, the production and consumption of energy is responsible for the bulk of the country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
|
|
03-Jun-2008
The 2008 Finland Country Survey finds that despite Finland’s excellent compulsory education system, problems remain at the tertiary level, especially in the transition from upper secondary school to tertiary education. Finland also has very long tertiary study times. The Survey makes recommendations on how the tertiary entrance backlog might be addressed and how incentives might be fine-tuned so as to encourage students to complete their tertiary education as efficiently as possible.
|
|
03-Jun-2008
The 2008 Finland Country Survey makes recommendations on how Finland could step up efforts to encourage the migration workers as a means of filling the growing skill shortages in many sectors. The Survey also makes recommendations as to how the existing stock of foreign migrants might be better integrated into the labour force through improved training and related services.
|
|
03-Jun-2008
The 2008 Finland Country Survey finds that while Finland has recorded strong employment growth over the past decade, significant challenges loom. As the population ages additional policies need to be put in place to boost labour market participation including by encouraging later retirement, and reactivating older displaced workers and those on sickness and disability benefits.
|
Top of page
|
|
Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2008
