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Economic Survey - Belgium 2005: Keeping older workers in employment longer

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09-Mar-2005

The employment rate for older workers is low reflecting a number of attractive exit routes into early retirement and a lack of demand for older workers due to steep seniority-based wage increments.

Economic Survey - Belgium 2005: Trends in working time

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09-Mar-2005

There is a trend decline in annual hours worked per employee in Belgium, as in most other OECD countries, owing to a rise in labour productivity triggering higher real wages, a rise of female participation ...

Economic Survey - Belgium 2005: Increasing productivity growth

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09-Mar-2005

The OECD Economic Survey of Belgium 2005 identifies more profitable use of ICT in the finance and distribution sectors, more competition in professional services and the electricity sector, lower administrative ...

Economic Survey - Belgium 2005: Enhancing the economic impact of migration

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09-Mar-2005

The OECD Economic Survey of Belgium 2005 looks at measures to enhance the economic impact of migration in Belgium, notably by improving language capacity and increasing attachment to the labour market ...

Economic Survey - Belgium 2005: Increasing the employment rate

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09-Mar-2005

The employment rates for older and younger workers are low and the structural unemployment rates in Wallonia and Brussels are high. Fiscal incentives for early retirement should be reduced, job-search ...

Economic Survey - Belgium 2005: Constraining public health expenditure growth

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09-Mar-2005

High growth in healthcare expenditures continues to pose a risk to the sustainability of public finances. Recent measures to control the level of aggregate spending should be strengthened.

Economic Survey - Belgium 2005: Putting public finances on a sustainable path

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09-Mar-2005

Consolidation measures should focus on expenditure restraint. Further fiscal consolidation is necessary to put public finances on a sustainable path allowing for population ageing.

Economic Survey - Belgium 2005: The policy challenge: preparing for population ageing

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09-Mar-2005

The OECD Economic Survey of Belgium 2005 identifies the main policy challenges that arise from population ageing and other recent and longer-term economic developments.