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• Why do Europeans work less? It is taxes and government spending

  - 2008-04-01

  I. INTRODUCTION The reason why Europeans work less than Americans is the subject of intense discussion in recent literature. Prescott (2004), Cardia, Kozhaya, and Ruge-Murcia (2003), and Roeger and De Fiore (1999) emphasize the negative effects of high taxes in Europe. Other authors, like Blanchard (2004) and Alesina, Glaeser,...

  Tags: benefit, Europe, FINANCE, government, income, Italy, OECD, Taxes, U.S.

• OECD chief warns of 'peril' if Europe does not reform

  - 2008-03-24

  LONDON AFP — Europe faces "peril" if it does not reform its labour and product markets, Angel Gurria, the secretary-general of the OECD warned in an interview published Tuesday. "Reform is indispensable," Gurria told the Financial Times business daily. "People have to be aware of the costs of...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, Europe, OECD, Quality

• Europe's lazy politicians must hold themselves to account.

  - 2007-01-14

  Byline: Alan Mitchell Jan 14, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- European countries need to move to sustainable fiscal policies. Europe's economic growth is improving but the OECD has warned that it has serious weaknesses. European politicians have failed...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, OECD, Strategy, Taxes

• G7 growth puts eurozone, US on rate alert: OECD

  - 2006-09-05

  PARIS AFP — Eurozone growth has spurted to close a gap with a flagging US economy, pointing G7 countries towards 3.0-percent expansion this year but putting Europe and the US on interest rate alert, the OECD has said. "Europe has rediscovered its place in world growth," OECD chief economist Jean-Philippe...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, OECD

• U.S. editorial excerpts -3-

  - 2006-02-13

  NEW YORK, Feb. 8 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: THE EUROPEAN DISEASE (The Wall Street Journal, New York) Thousands of union workers and politicians marched in France and Germany yesterday against any and all attempts to tweak their rigid labor rules. What...

  Tags: Europe, OECD, U.S.

• A Classless Act

  - 2005-11-28

  Five years ago in Lisbon leaders of the EU set a bold goal: to make Europe "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010. So how much progress has Europe made? Not much. Perhaps the biggest disappointment is that many European nations make ambitious claims to...

  Tags: education, Europe, France, Germany, knowledge, OECD, performance

• A Classless Act; Europe likes to think of itself as egalitarian, but workers and immigrants are much more likely to reach university in America.

  - 2005-11-28

  Byline: Andreas Schleicher (Schleicher is head of Indicators and Analysis in the OECD Directorate for Education.) Five years ago in Lisbon leaders of the EU set a bold goal: to make Europe "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by...

  Tags: education, Europe, France, Germany, OECD, performance, worker

• PHILIPS HAS NO INTENTION OF LETTING UP ON ITS SEMICONDUCTOR ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE.(Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.)

  - 2005-10-13

  The Dutch group Philips intends to continue to invest in, and has no intention of letting up on, its semiconductor activities in Europe said the Vice President of Philips Semiconductors, Indro Mukerjee, during a press conference on October 5. Mr Mukerjee, who was in Paris to ...

  Tags: Biometrics, chip, Europe, HARDWARE, NETWORKING, OECD, Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Semiconductor, radio, RFID, SECURITY, Semiconductors, WIRELESS

• British finance minister condemns 'new protectionism' in EU

  - 2005-09-09

  MANCHESTER, England AFP — British Finance Minister Gordon Brown condemned the "new protectionism" seen during the European Union's recent textile dispute with China, warning the bloc it must adapt to the realities of a global economy. "There is no hinding place in a new protectionism that will try to...

  Tags: Asia, China, England, Europe, FINANCE, Leadership, Manchester, OECD, Strategy

• A view on the United States from Europe: a bit darker than the U.S. mainstream

  - 2005-07-01

  The recent behaviour of the U.S. economy poses two conundrums: short-term interest rates are much lower than would normally be expected, and the yield curve is flat. These suggest to many European observers that U.S. economic prospects are not as rosy as often depicted. In particular, deficits in the federal...

  Tags: bond, economist, Europe, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation, Lehman Brothers Inc., OECD, U.S., yield