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Product and Labour Markets Interactions in OECD Countries

Title
Product and Labour Markets Interactions in OECD Countries [electronic resource] / Giuseppe Nicoletti ... [et al]
Publication
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2001.

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  • Nicoletti, Giuseppe.
  • Bassanini, Andrea.
  • Ernst, Ekkehard.
  • Jean, Sébastien.
  • Santiago, Paulo.
  • Swaim, Paul.
Description
111 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
Summary
This paper analyses several of the cross-market effects of policies aimed at influencing outcomes in product and labour markets. Focusing on subsets of OECD countries, we look at the implications of product market competition for industry wages and overall employment, and the implications of labour market arrangements for industrial structure and innovation potential. We also look at the potential implications of regulatory reform for employment security and income inequality. We provide empirical evidence on long-run policy interactions by exploiting the cross-country and intersectoral dimensions of the data, though the analysis of employment uses also the time-series dimension. To this end, we rely on a large set of indicators of (economy-wide) labour market policies and institutions and (economy-wide, industry-specific and time-varying) product market regulations. We find that: (a) anticompetitive product market regulations have significant negative effects on non-agricultural ...
Series Statement
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.312
Uniform Title
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.312.
Subject
Economics
LCCN
10.1787/814240442882
OCLC
oecd-lib
Title
Product and Labour Markets Interactions in OECD Countries [electronic resource] / Giuseppe Nicoletti ... [et al]
Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2001.
Series
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.312
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.312.
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Indexed Term
Economics
Added Author
Nicoletti, Giuseppe.
Bassanini, Andrea.
Ernst, Ekkehard.
Jean, Sébastien.
Santiago, Paulo.
Swaim, Paul.
Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/814240442882 doi
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