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No. 192 | 19 Mar 1998 |
Efficiency and Distribution in Computable Models of Carbon Emission Abatement
The separability between efficiency and equity is an underlying assumption in most computable general equilibrium (CGE) models used to assess the costs of carbon abatement. Chichilnisky and Heal (1994) have generated a debate on both the analytical... |
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No. 191 | 11 Mar 1998 |
Monetary Policy when Inflation is Low
This paper examines several key issues concerning the implications for monetary policy of the achievement of low inflation in OECD countries during the 1990s. In particular, the analysis considers whether there have been improvements in monetary... |
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No. 190 | 09 Mar 1998 |
Submission by the OECD to the G8 Growth, Employability and Inclusion Conference
OECD countries as a whole have experienced modest annual output growth of some 2 1/2 per cent over the past four years. But unemployment remains unacceptably high -- having fallen only slightly from its peak of 38 million in 1993 to the current 35... |
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No. 189 | 03 Mar 1998 |
Income Distribution and Poverty in Selected OECD Countries
This working paper presents evidence on changes in income distribution and poverty in thirteen OECD countries over the two decades up to the first half of the 1990s. While country experience has been variable, income and poverty rose in most... |
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No. 188 | 13 Feb 1998 |
Asset Prices and Monetary Policy
In this paper, the authors analyse the role of asset market prices in the formation of monetary policy with particular reference to equity markets, a concern for policy makers in the late 1990s. While asset prices have potentially valuable... |
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No. 187 | 01 Jan 1997 |
NAIRU: Incomes Policy and Inflation
Italy has been one of the few industrial countries resorting to incomes policy in the current decade. Many Italian observers have attributed to this policy the remarkable slowdown in wage and price inflation. However, no apparent progress has been... |
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No. 186 | 01 Jan 1997 |
OECD Submission to the Irish National Minimum Wage Commission
This submission provides a brief factual survey of statutory minimum wage systems in OECD countries (Section B) as well as a summary of recommendations concerning minimum wages which have been presented in the OECD Jobs Study and recent OECD Economic... |
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No. 185 | 01 Apr 1997 |
OECD Submission to the UK Low Pay Commission
A. IntroductionThis submission provides a brief factual survey of statutory minimum wage systems in OECD countries (Section B) as well as a summary of recommendations concerning minimum wages which have been presented in the OECD Jobs Study and... |
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No. 184 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Concept, Measurement and Policy Implications of the NAIRU
The use of the NAIRU-concept is not very widespread in Belgium. This may be partly due to an observed unemployment rate that is probably significantly higher than the NAIRU for most of the past two decades. Government policy to halve the... |
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No. 183 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Structural Unemployment in Denmark
The paper gives a broad discussion of structural unemployment seen from a Danish perspective. In the Danish Ministry of Finance the level of structural unemployment is estimated using two indicators - NAIRU and ITRU. The two indicators basically... |
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No. 182 | 01 Jan 1997 |
The United Kingdom NAIRU
The behaviour of unemployment in the UK is of particular interest in the light of the far reaching programme of reforms introduced since 1980. The paper first outlines the main theoretical ideas behind the concept of equilibrium unemployment, drawing... |
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No. 181 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Globalisation and Linkages
This paper was prepared in the OECD Economics Department as a contribution to the Organisation-wide study entitled, “Towards a New Global Age”. It examines macro-structural economic developments in and between OECD and non-OECD economies, the... |
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No. 180 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Regulation and Performance in the Distribution Sector
This paper discusses the impact of government-imposed regulations on performance in the distribution sector. It first deals with the role of the distribution sector in OECD economies and gives an overview of competitive conditions in the sector.... |
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No. 179 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Measurement of Non-Tariff Barriers
For governments, the advantage of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade is that their effects are more certain than for tariffs. Now that tariff barriers have been substantially reduced, there has been increasing interest in the ways that non-tariff... |
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No. 178 | 01 Jan 1997 |
The NAIRU-Concept
This note gives a brief survey of main theoretical and empirical issues with respect to the NAIRU concept. According to modern labour market literature NAIRU is defined as the rate of unemployment at which inflation stabilises in the absence of any... |
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No. 177 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Structural Unemployment in Finland
Since the Finnish unemployment rate has rocketed to a very high level in the beginning of the 1990's, it is worth to study to what extent the unemployment rate prevailing today is due to cyclical or to structural reasons. In this paper we try to... |
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No. 176 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Taxation and Economic Performance
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of taxation on economic performance, adds marginally to the empirical literature, and draws conclusions for tax policy in OECD countries. Key issues covered are how, in open... |
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No. 175 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Long-Term Interest Rates in Globalised Markets
This paper addresses the issue of whether covariation of long-term interest rates across G10 countries has increased in recent years and whether, as a consequence, interest rates have become less subject to the influence of national monetary... |
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No. 174 | 01 Jan 1997 |
International Implications of European Economic and Monetary Union
For a long time European Economic and Monetary Union was mainly considered an internal European issue and external consequences were largely ignored. In contrast to most previous analyses, this paper looks at a number of international implications of... |
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No. 173 | 01 Jan 1997 |
The NAIRU in Japan
The NAIRU is estimated by using the Japanese data. There are three major findings. The NAIRU has been increasing modestly since 1970. Unlike the standard specification adopted in many OECD countries it can be estimated more precisely when the... |
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Efficiency and Distribution in Computable Models of Carbon Emission Abatement
Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Peter Sturm
19 Mar 1998
The separability between efficiency and equity is an underlying assumption in most computable general equilibrium (CGE) models used to assess the costs of carbon abatement. Chichilnisky and Heal (1994) have generated a debate on both the analytical...
Monetary Policy when Inflation is Low
Charles Pigott and Hans Christiansen
11 Mar 1998
This paper examines several key issues concerning the implications for monetary policy of the achievement of low inflation in OECD countries during the 1990s. In particular, the analysis considers whether there have been improvements in monetary...
OECD countries as a whole have experienced modest annual output growth of some 2 1/2 per cent over the past four years. But unemployment remains unacceptably high -- having fallen only slightly from its peak of 38 million in 1993 to the current 35...
Income Distribution and Poverty in Selected OECD Countries
Jean-Marc Burniaux, Thai-Thanh Dang, Douglas Fore, Michael Förster, Marco Mira d'Ercole and Howard Oxley
03 Mar 1998
This working paper presents evidence on changes in income distribution and poverty in thirteen OECD countries over the two decades up to the first half of the 1990s. While country experience has been variable, income and poverty rose in most...
Asset Prices and Monetary Policy
Mike Kennedy, Angel Palerm, Charles Pigott and Flavia Terribile
13 Feb 1998
In this paper, the authors analyse the role of asset market prices in the formation of monetary policy with particular reference to equity markets, a concern for policy makers in the late 1990s. While asset prices have potentially valuable...
NAIRU: Incomes Policy and Inflation
Silvia Fabiani, Alberto Locarno, Gian Paolo Oneto and Paolo Sestito
01 Jan 1997
Italy has been one of the few industrial countries resorting to incomes policy in the current decade. Many Italian observers have attributed to this policy the remarkable slowdown in wage and price inflation. However, no apparent progress has been...
OECD Submission to the Irish National Minimum Wage Commission
OECD
01 Jan 1997
This submission provides a brief factual survey of statutory minimum wage systems in OECD countries (Section B) as well as a summary of recommendations concerning minimum wages which have been presented in the OECD Jobs Study and recent OECD Economic...
OECD Submission to the UK Low Pay Commission
OECD
01 Apr 1997
A. IntroductionThis submission provides a brief factual survey of statutory minimum wage systems in OECD countries (Section B) as well as a summary of recommendations concerning minimum wages which have been presented in the OECD Jobs Study and...
Concept, Measurement and Policy Implications of the NAIRU
Joost Verlinden
01 Jan 1997
The use of the NAIRU-concept is not very widespread in Belgium. This may be partly due to an observed unemployment rate that is probably significantly higher than the NAIRU for most of the past two decades. Government policy to halve the...
Structural Unemployment in Denmark
Agnete Gersing
01 Jan 1997
The paper gives a broad discussion of structural unemployment seen from a Danish perspective. In the Danish Ministry of Finance the level of structural unemployment is estimated using two indicators - NAIRU and ITRU. The two indicators basically...
The United Kingdom NAIRU
Chris Melliss and A. E. Webb
01 Jan 1997
The behaviour of unemployment in the UK is of particular interest in the light of the far reaching programme of reforms introduced since 1980. The paper first outlines the main theoretical ideas behind the concept of equilibrium unemployment, drawing...
Globalisation and Linkages
Pete Richardson
01 Jan 1997
This paper was prepared in the OECD Economics Department as a contribution to the Organisation-wide study entitled, “Towards a New Global Age”. It examines macro-structural economic developments in and between OECD and non-OECD economies, the...
Regulation and Performance in the Distribution Sector
Dirk Pilat
01 Jan 1997
This paper discusses the impact of government-imposed regulations on performance in the distribution sector. It first deals with the role of the distribution sector in OECD economies and gives an overview of competitive conditions in the sector....
Measurement of Non-Tariff Barriers
Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern
01 Jan 1997
For governments, the advantage of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade is that their effects are more certain than for tariffs. Now that tariff barriers have been substantially reduced, there has been increasing interest in the ways that non-tariff...
The NAIRU-Concept
Karl Pichelmann and Andreas Ulrich Schuh
01 Jan 1997
This note gives a brief survey of main theoretical and empirical issues with respect to the NAIRU concept. According to modern labour market literature NAIRU is defined as the rate of unemployment at which inflation stabilises in the absence of any...
Structural Unemployment in Finland
Pasi Holm and Helina Somervouri
01 Jan 1997
Since the Finnish unemployment rate has rocketed to a very high level in the beginning of the 1990's, it is worth to study to what extent the unemployment rate prevailing today is due to cyclical or to structural reasons. In this paper we try to...
Taxation and Economic Performance
Willi Leibfritz, John Thornton and Alexandra Bibbee
01 Jan 1997
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of taxation on economic performance, adds marginally to the empirical literature, and draws conclusions for tax policy in OECD countries. Key issues covered are how, in open...
Long-Term Interest Rates in Globalised Markets
Hans Christiansen and Charles Pigott
01 Jan 1997
This paper addresses the issue of whether covariation of long-term interest rates across G10 countries has increased in recent years and whether, as a consequence, interest rates have become less subject to the influence of national monetary...
International Implications of European Economic and Monetary Union
Norbert Funke and Mike Kennedy
01 Jan 1997
For a long time European Economic and Monetary Union was mainly considered an internal European issue and external consequences were largely ignored. In contrast to most previous analyses, this paper looks at a number of international implications of...
The NAIRU in Japan
Fumihira Nishizaki
01 Jan 1997
The NAIRU is estimated by using the Japanese data. There are three major findings. The NAIRU has been increasing modestly since 1970. Unlike the standard specification adopted in many OECD countries it can be estimated more precisely when the...