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Economic Policy Reforms 2007
Going for Growth
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- Editorial
- Table of Contents
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Part I. Taking Stock of Structural Policies in OECD Countries
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Chapter 1. Structural Policy Priorities: An Overview
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Chapter 2. Country Notes
- + Australia
- + Austria
- + Belgium
- + Canada
- + Czech Republic
- + Denmark
- + European Union
- + Finland
- + France
- + Germany
- + Greece
- + Hungary
- + Iceland
- + Ireland
- + Italy
- + Japan
- + Korea
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Luxembourg
- + Mexico
- + Netherlands
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New Zealand
- + Norway
- + Poland
- + Portugal
- + Slovak Republic
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Spain
- + Sweden
- + Switzerland
- + Turkey
- + United Kingdom
- + United States
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Chapter 3. Structural Policy Indicators
- Figure 3.1. Cost of labour
- Figure 3.2. Net income replacement rates for unemployment
- Figure 3.3. Average tax wedge on labour
- Figure 3.4. Marginal tax wedge on labour
- Figure 3.5. Labour taxation
- Figure 3.6. Implicit tax on returning to work, 2004
- Figure 3.7. Income support for disability and sickness
- Figure 3.8. Employment Protection Legislation (EPL)
- Figure 3.9. Difference between coverage rates of collective bargaining agreements and trade union density rates
- Figure 3.10. Product market regulation, 2003
- Figure 3.11. State control of business operations, 2003
- Figure 3.12. Barriers to entrepreneurship, 2003
- Figure 3.13. Barriers to entry, 2003
- Figure 3.14. Barriers to foreign direct investment
- Figure 3.15. Sectoral regulation in the transport sector, 2003
- Figure 3.16. Sectoral regulation in the energy sector, 2003
- Figure 3.17. Sectoral regulation in the post and telecommunications sectors, 2003
- Figure 3.18. Sectoral regulation in retail distribution and professionnal services, 2003
- Figure 3.19. Educational attainment, 2004
- Figure 3.20. Educational achievement
- Figure 3.21. Producer support estimate to agriculture
- Figure 3.22. Importance of external trade tariffs, 2003
- Figure 3.23. Health expenditure, 2004
- Figure 3.24. Public investment
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Chapter 1. Structural Policy Priorities: An Overview
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Part II. Thematic Studies
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Chapter 4. The Employment Effects of Policies and Institutions
- Introduction
- + Labour market performance over the past decade and key challenges
- + Policies to raise labour supply
- + Policies to raise labour demand
- + The role of macroeconomic conditions and macroeconomic policies
- + The overall impact of policy changes in the past on employment and the benefits of future reforms
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Chapter 5. Product Market Regulation and Productivity Convergence
- Introduction
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Past regulatory reform and remaining barriers to competition in OECD markets
- + Competition-restraining regulations and productivity developments
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The channels from restrictive regulation to slower diffusion
- The positive impact on convergence of further regulatory reform
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Chapter 6. Policies to Strengthen Competition in Product Markets
- + Introduction
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Competition laws and their enforcement
- + Restrictions on foreign competition
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Regulatory barriers to competition
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Competitive sectors: retail distribution and professional services
- Figure 6.3. Retail distribution: Special regulations of large-surface outlets are in place in most OECD countries, 2003
- Figure 6.4. Professional services: Entry regulations show a large variation across OECD countries, 2003
- Figure 6.5. Advertising of professional services is still heavily restricted in some OECD countries, 2003
- Network industries
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Competitive sectors: retail distribution and professional services
- Notes
- Bibliography
- + Chapter 7. What Shapes the Implementation of Structural Reform?
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Chapter 4. The Employment Effects of Policies and Institutions
Based on a broad set of indicators of structural policies and performance, Going for Growth 2007 takes stock of the recent progress made in implementing policy reforms and identifies, for each OECD country, five policy priorities to lift growth. It calls for reforms in areas such as product and labour market regulation, taxation, pension, income support, health and education to boost labour productivity and employment. In addition, this issue contains four analytical chapters covering the employment effects of policies and institutions, product market regulation and productivity convergence, policies to strengthen competition in product markets, and factors shaping the implementation of structural reform. "A careful reading of this report would give an opportunistic reformer plenty of hints, tips and tricks.It offers aguide to the subtle art of making possible what is necessary." -The Economist, Feb18th-23rd 2007,
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Political Science > Public Policy > Economic Policy
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Publication year : 2007
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