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Summary of a Workshop on Global Convergence Scenarios: Structural and Policy Issues

Vanston, Nick - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

This document forms a record of a workshop held on 16 January 2006, aimed at examining the mechanisms underlying cross-country convergence of per capita GDP, to what extent they operate in practice, and the implications for policies, including those requiring plausible long-term projections of...

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Services vs. Manufacturing – How Does Foreign and Domestic Sales Impact on their R&D?

Ejermo, Olof; Bergman, Karin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

towards the foreign market vs. the domestic market to find stimuli for innovation …

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Fostering Innovation in Chile

Benavente, José-Miguel; Mello, Luiz de; Mulder, Nanno - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

A good framework for investment in innovation can contribute to increasing Chile’s growth potential. Spending on R&D is … currently low in relation to GDP and heavily reliant on government financing. Innovation activity in the business sector is also … mining tax introduced in May 2005, and to create a National Innovation Council. The effectiveness of these measures will …

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Hungarian Innovation Policy: What's the Best Way Forward?

Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

The Hungarian government has recently been focusing on innovation policy as part of a wider campaign to improve the … and informal R&D activity as well as ensuring Hungary benefits from the international diffusion of innovation. In … examining specific innovation policies, the new National Innovation System is described and an assessment is made of the …

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Informal Employment in Russia: Definitions, Incidence, Determinants and Labour Market Segmentation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

This paper takes stock of informal employment in Russia analysing its incidence and determinants. Using the regular 2003-11 waves and an informality supplement of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) it develops several measures of informal employment and demonstrates that the...

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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation

Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...

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Too little Destruction too little Creation: A Schumpeterian Diagnosis of Barriers to Sustained Growth in Ukraine

Gianella, Christian; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This paper examines problems of entry, exit and competition in Ukrainian product markets. It finds that Ukraine still has too little of all three, and that exit mechanisms, in particular, function poorly. Since impediments to entry and exit are largely the product of excessive and ill...

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Fast-Falling Barriers and Growing Concentration: The Emergence of a Private Economy in China

Dougherty, Sean; Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

This paper assesses the progress of China’s transition toward a market economy by examining the structure of ownership, productivity, and profitability, as well as the concentration of production across firms, industries and regions. It does this by analyzing a database of firm microdata of...

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Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of ‘Dutch Disease': A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry

Ahrend, Rudiger; Rosa, Donato de; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This paper examines the development of Russian industry in comparison with that of Ukrainian industry during 1995–2004 in an effort to ascertain to what extent, if any, Russian manufacturing showed signs of succumbing to ‘Dutch disease’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with...

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A Constant Market Share Analysis of Spanish Goods Exports

Pandiella, Alberto González - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015

The constant market share analysis framework is used to decompose changes in Spain’s share of the global market for goods exports into competitiveness and structural effects (i.e. the impact of specialisation, either in product or geographical terms) over 1996-2013. As other high-income...

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