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Economic Survey of Spain 2008

19-Nov-2008

The main challenges facing the Spanish economy are to minimise the economic costs of the current downturn, move workers shed to new jobs, and to raise sustainable productivity growth including by improving human capital formation and competition in product markets.

What Drives the NAIRU? Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

17-Nov-2008

This paper analyses the determinants of structural unemployment rates in a two-stage approach. First, time-varying NAIRUs are estimated for a panel of OECD economies on the basis of Phillips curve equations using Kalman filter techniques. In a second stage, the estimated NAIRUs are regressed on selected policy and institutional variables.

OECD forecasts a protracted economic slowdown in US, Japan and Euro area

13-Nov-2008

Economic activity is expected to fall by 0.9 percent in the US next year, by 0.5 percent in the Euro area and by 0.1 percent in Japan as OECD countries enter a protracted slowdown, according to latest projections. Watch the news conference to present GDP, inflation and unemployment forecasts for the three economies ahead of the G20 summit on the financial crisis on 15 November 2008.

Joint OECD-World Bank Conference on Innovation and Sustainable Growth in a Globalised World

from 18-Nov-2008 to 19-Nov-2008

Innovation is crucial to long-term economic growth. Making innovation-driven growth happen requires action on a wide range of policy areas, from education and science and technology to product and labour markets and trade. OECD and the World Bank are joining forces to work more closely on innovation, particularly insofar as this issue is a crucial factor in the success of development policy, notably in middle income market economies.

Speed of adjustment to selected labour market and tax reforms

29-Oct-2008

This paper examines the nature and the length of economic adjustments to selected structural reforms, drawing on a variety of approaches: descriptive analysis and simulations using Dynamic General Equilibrium and macro-economic neo-Keynesian models.

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EO 84 to be released 25 November 2008

Issue No. 83