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OECD Economic Surveys: Netherlands 2006
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- Table of contents
- Basic Statistics of the Netherlands (2004)
- Executive summary
- Assessment and recommendations
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Chapter 1. Challenges faced by the Dutch economy
- + Short-term prospects
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Medium-term challenges
- + Enhancing resilience in the aftermath of shocks
- Bringing public finances back on a sustainable path
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Raising labour utilisation to enhance potential growth
- Figure 1.5. Decomposition of average annual growth in trend GDP per capita
- Figure 1.6. Decomposition of gap in trend GDP per capita
- Figure 1.7. Decomposition of growth in trend labour utilisation
- Figure 1.8. Employment rates
- Figure 1.9. Trend growth in hours worked per person employed
- Figure 1.10. Annual hours worked per person employed
- Figure 1.11. Distribution of employment by usual working time
- + Enhancing productivity growth, especially in ICT-using services
- Notes
- Bibliography
- + Annex 1.A1. Explaining the Dutch lack of resilience following adverse shocks
- Annex 1.A2. Progress in structural reform
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Chapter 2. Putting public finances on a sustainable path.
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Chapter 3. Labour market reform to increase resilience and labour utilisation
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Labour market reforms to increase macroeconomic resilience
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Increasing working time
- + Reducing costs to parents of childcare and out-of-school hours care would encourage mothers to work longer hours
- + Lowering marginal effective tax rates would increase incentives to work longer hours
- Budget room for extra expenditure on care subsidies and cuts in marginal effective tax rates could be made by phasing out tax subsidies on owner-occupied housing
- Social partners could also contribute to increasing working time by making it a priority
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Raising employment rates of older workers
- Figure 3.3. Average effective and official age of retirement in OECD countries, 1997-20021
- Closing exit routes to early retirement and indexing the official retirement age to life expectancy
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Strengthening the employability of older workers through increased training
- Figure 3.4. Participation in training in selected European countries, 2003
- Table 3.4. Low-skilled population in selected OECD countries by age and gender, 2001
- Figure 3.5. Education level of older workers in selected OECD countries, 2000 and 2025
- Box 3.2. Policy recommendations for easing EPL and increasing labour stabilisation
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Labour market reforms to increase macroeconomic resilience
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Chapter 4. Further improvement of product market competition, especially in services
- Introduction
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Easing product market regulation
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Fostering productivity growth in services
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Retail trade
- Figure 4.2. Employment growth in retail for selected countries
- Figure 4.3. Indicators of regulation in retail distribution
- Figure 4.4. Mark-ups in retail and wholesale in selected OECD countries
- Figure 4.5. Entry and exit rates in retail, selected OECD countries
- Figure 4.6. Growth of foreign affiliates in retail and wholesale, selected OECD countries
- Financial services
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Retail trade
- + Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- + Annex 4.A1. The Product Market Regulation indicator system
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Chapter 5. Making better use of knowledge creation in innovation activities
- Introduction
- + A Dutch paradox
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Improving knowledge development
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Increasing business R&D expenditure
- Figure 5.3. Business enterprise sector expenditure on R&D
- Table 5.2. Long-term developments in business R&D intensity
- Figure 5.4. Inward R&D as a share of total R&D in relation to openness of the economy
- Figure 5.5. FDI in relation to openness of the economy
- Figure 5.6. Performance of the Netherlands on the important location factors for foreign R&D investments
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Enhance co-operation between knowledge institutions and firms
- Box 5.2. Institutions to transfer knowledge
- Box 5.3. Renewal of financial instruments
- Box 5.4. More specific support
- Figure 5.7. Non-US OECD citizens with science and engineering doctorates in the United States
- Figure 5.8. Science and engineering degrees as a percentage of total new degrees
- Figure 5.9. Population that has attained tertiary education
- + Increasing the proportion of the population with tertiary education
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Increasing business R&D expenditure
- + Enhancing application of new knowledge
- + Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Annex 5.A1. Factor analysis to identify inter-related EIS innovation indicators
- Table 5.A1.1. Innovation item classification and source of data
- Table 5.A1.2. Factor analysis results: 20 items
- Table 5.A1.3. Factor loadings
- Table 5.A1.4. Rankings of OECD 20 countries for innovation items that load on “Knowledge Development”
- Table 5.A1.5. Rankings of OECD 20 countries for innovation items that load on “Knowledge Application”
- Glossary of Acronyms
This 2005 OECD Economic Survey of the Dutch economy (published as thesecond issue in the 2006 volume) examines key economic challenges including putting public finances on a sustainable path, increasing resiliency in labour markets, strengthening product market competition, and improving the environment for innovation.As always, it assesses short-term prospects and provides a series of policy recommendations.
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