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Reforming Policies for the Business Sector to Harvest the Benefits of Globalisation in the Netherlands

Gerritsen, Mathijs; Høj, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

The Netherlands has strongly benefited from globalisation, which boosted international trade, cross-border investment and economic growth over the latest decades. Looking ahead, the Netherlands needs to shift the trade and investment orientation from traditional slow-growing markets to faster...

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Reinvigorating the EU Single Market

Fournier, Jean-Marc - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

removing barriers to external trade would bring substantial growth and employment gains by enhancing resource allocation in …

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The Width of the Intra-European Economic Borders

Serres, Alain de; Hoeller, Peter; Maisonneuve, … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001

This paper first provides a brief overview of the literature on market segmentation and then presents an empirical exercise that sheds more light on the significance of border effects across European countries. The literature suggests that integration in the EU goods and financial markets is...

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Financial Market Integration in the Euro Area

Gjersem, Carl - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003

Although there is no single yardstick to gauge the degree of integration, there is ample evidence that financial markets in the euro area have some way to go before national demarcation lines will effectively disappear and financial market integration is satisfactory. While there has been a push...

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Austria's Deepening Economic Integration with Central and Eastern Europe

Bhattacharya, Rina - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

) aggregate employment. Indeed, among the older EU member states, Austria has benefited the most from the transition of the …

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Raising the Potential of the Domestically Oriented Sector in Germany

Eid, André; Hutfilter, Andrés Fuentes - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015

Germany’s manufacturing sector, which plays an important role for exports, has been performing well over the past decade in terms of labour productivity growth and international competitiveness. However, the services sector has had much slower growth rates. Competition often appears to be...

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Regulation in Services: OECD Patterns and Economic Implications

Nicoletti, Giuseppe - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001

The paper looks at patterns of regulation in service industries and explores their implications for service performance. Focusing on restrictions to market mechanisms, a map of the state of service regulation in OECD countries is provided, based on data recently collected and summarised by the...

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Migration in OECD countries: Labour Market Impact and Integration Issues

Jean, Sébastien; Causa, Orsetta; Jimenez, Miguel; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …

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Integration of Immigrants in OECD Countries: Do Policies Matter?

Causa, Orsetta; Jean, Sébastien - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

lag behind natives in terms of employment and/or wages. The differences narrow as years since settlement elapse …, especially as regards wages, reflecting progressive assimilation. Strong differences in immigrant-to-native gaps are also … to be overrepresented among outsiders in the labour market and, as such, highly sensitive to the difference in employment …

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The Heterogeneity of Product Market Regulations

Fournier, Jean-Marc - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015

This paper is making use of the OECD product market regulation (PMR) database to measure the heterogeneity of product market regulation across countries for the whole economy, for the main subcomponents of the PMR indicator and for the internet economy. The heterogeneity within EU countries is...

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