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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 |
Réglementations et performances dans le secteur de la distribution
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 |
Barrières non tarifaires
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 |
Fiscalité et performance économique
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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No. 172 | 01 Jan 1997 |
The Unemployment Problem
This paper lays out a simple open economy macromodel based on the recent literature on imperfect competition and equilibrium unemployment. It is shown that the NAIRU is not a clearcut concept in the open economy framework. Furthermore, it is argued... |
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No. 171 | 01 Jan 1997 |
The Reliability of Quarterly National Accounts in Seven Major Countries
National accounts data provide the most comprehensive overview available of developments in national economies. They are of great interest to a wide range of users of economic information. These users, which include governments formulating budgetary... |
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No. 170 | 01 Jan 1996 |
Confidence Indicators and Their Relationship to Changes in Economic Activity
This paper examines the usefulness of consumer and business surveys in assessing the cyclical position of the economy and for forecasting output movements. To that effect, after a brief review of the nature of sentiment measures, the empirical... |
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No. 169 | 01 Jan 1996 |
Niveau de productivité du travail dans les pays de l'OCDE
This paper provides estimates of labour productivity levels in OECD manufacturing, for 9 countries and 36 industrial sectors. It also provides an overview of some of the available evidence on cross-country productivity differences in the service... |
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No. 168 | 01 Jan 1996 |
Ageing Populations, Pension Systems and Government Budgets
This paper presents simulations of the impact of age-related public expenditures on overall government budget positions and on national savings for 20 countries. Using demographic projections prepared by the World Bank, models have been constructed... |
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NAIRU: Incomes Policy and Inflation
Silvia Fabiani, Alberto Locarno, Gian Paolo Oneto et 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
OCDE
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
OCDE
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 et 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...
Réglementations et performances dans le secteur de la distribution
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....
Barrières non tarifaires
Alan V. Deardorff et 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 et 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 et 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...
Fiscalité et performance économique
Willi Leibfritz, John Thornton et 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 et 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 et 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...
The Unemployment Problem
Steinar Holden
01 Jan 1997
This paper lays out a simple open economy macromodel based on the recent literature on imperfect competition and equilibrium unemployment. It is shown that the NAIRU is not a clearcut concept in the open economy framework. Furthermore, it is argued...
The Reliability of Quarterly National Accounts in Seven Major Countries
Robert York et Paul Atkinson
01 Jan 1997
National accounts data provide the most comprehensive overview available of developments in national economies. They are of great interest to a wide range of users of economic information. These users, which include governments formulating budgetary...
Confidence Indicators and Their Relationship to Changes in Economic Activity
Teresa Santero et Niels Westerlund
01 Jan 1996
This paper examines the usefulness of consumer and business surveys in assessing the cyclical position of the economy and for forecasting output movements. To that effect, after a brief review of the nature of sentiment measures, the empirical...
Niveau de productivité du travail dans les pays de l'OCDE
Dirk Pilat
01 Jan 1996
This paper provides estimates of labour productivity levels in OECD manufacturing, for 9 countries and 36 industrial sectors. It also provides an overview of some of the available evidence on cross-country productivity differences in the service...
Ageing Populations, Pension Systems and Government Budgets
Deborah Roseveare, Willi Leibfritz, Douglas Fore et Eckhard Wurzel
01 Jan 1996
This paper presents simulations of the impact of age-related public expenditures on overall government budget positions and on national savings for 20 countries. Using demographic projections prepared by the World Bank, models have been constructed...