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Who Devotes Majority of GDP to Government?
Worldwide, taxes are on the rise, or so says the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Which country takes a majority of their GDP and puts it back into government spending? Sweden is the clear winner. In 2006, 50.1% of their GDP went to taxes. ...
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Comparison Of Multifactor Productivity Indicators For Real Estate Sectors Using The oecd Input-Output Database
Research on the international comparison of productivity has gained significant interest throughout several previous decades. Relatively little work has however been done in the real estate sector. This paper aims to develop a new productivity measurement framework for the international comparison of the real estate sector based on the newly-published...
oecd's FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index: Revision And Extension To More Economies
This paper provides a revised measure of regulatory restrictions on inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries and extends the approach to 13 non-member countries. The methodology is largely similar to that adopted in the previous version of the OECD indicator and covers...
The Lag Structure Of The Impact Of Business Ownership On Economic Performance In oecd Countries
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21 OECD...
Offshore Outsourcing: Capitalizing On Lessons Learned A Conference For Thought Leaders
This paper discusses literature on outsourcing relative to what seems to be happening in China as China proceeds with her historic transformation of sustained high growth and deep integration into the world economy. It argues that the terminological debates in the literature as to how outsourcing is to be defined,...
Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: How To Better Meet User Needs
The purpose of the paper is to summarise a few recurrent user requirements regarding international direct investment statistics that have surfaced in the work of the Secretariat to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) Investment Committee. It aims to identify directions for immediate and future developments of data...
Valuation And Exploitation Of Intellectual Property
As firms shift to more open models of innovation based on collaboration and external sourcing of knowledge, they are exploiting their intellectual property, notably patents, not only by incorporating protected inventions into new products, processes and services, but also by licensing them to other firms or Public Research Organisations (PROs),...
Implementing e-Government In oecd Countries: Experiences And Challenges
E-government is defined by the OECD as "The use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), and particularly the Internet, to achieve better government" (from OECD The e-Government Imperative, 2003). This definition focuses attention on why countries are implementing e-government rather than on the ICT tools themselves. Faced with the pressure...
Taxation, Business Environment And FDI Location In oecd Countries
This paper assesses the importance of taxation on foreign direct investment contributing to the literature in two ways. First it relates bilateral FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) among OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries over the 1990s to a new set of estimates of corporate tax wedges that include...
The oecd Initiative On Investment For Development A Policy Framework For Investment: Trade Policy
This paper focuses on one policy discipline - trade policy - to be included in a Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) under the OECD Initiative on Investment for Development. It is designed to serve as background documentation for the PFI. The PFI is intended to be an operational, practical guide...
Outsourcing And Structural Change: An Application To Some oecd Countries
The paper aims at showing why and how outsourcing and structural change analysis could be bridged in order to obtain more accurate insights of economic dynamics and draw more reliable policy implications. Such a bridge is then set at work by applying a battery of outsourcing measurements to some OECD...
FDI And oecd Industry Productivity: Technology, Capital And Country Size
This paper investigates the impact of inward foreign direct investment on the host country using industry-level data for 11 OECD economies in 1987-2003. The paper relates to a large recent literature on spillovers from inward FDI (Foreign Direct Investment). The author show that; FDI had a significant positive effect on...
Research Use Of Patented Knowledge: A Review
This Working Paper reviews issues related to research access to patented inventions, with a particular focus on the role of research exemptions (or experimental use exemptions) in protecting such access. It outlines factors that may affect the ability of researchers to access patented inventions for legitimate research purposes; it reviews...
Productivity Impacts Of Offshoring And Outsourcing: A Review
Despite the attention that offshore outsourcing currently demands in the public media, there is little empirical evidence on its economic impact. As a consequence of rising fears of job losses associated with the phenomenon, most existing research on the subject is primarily concerned with addressing related labour market issues. The...
Liberalisation Of Trade In Renewable-Energy Products And Associated Goods
Numerous studies and events over the past several years have stressed the importance of eliminating barriers to trade in renewable forms of energy and the technologies used to exploit them, as part of a broader strategy to reduce dependence on more-polluting and less secure energy sources. This paper examines the...
Capital Stocks, Capital Services And Multi-Factor Productivity Measures
Measures of productivity are central to the assessment of economic growth. Measures of multi-factor (total factor) productivity or of capital productivity rely on the availability of statistical series on the prices and quantities of capital services that enter the production process. Unfortunately, to date only a small number of countries...
Labour Protection in China: Challenges Facing Labour Offices and Social Insurance
This paper focuses on public institutions for employment services, labour inspection and social insurance. One of the key institutional outcomes of China?s economic reforms has been to create a new role for employers that is separate from the state, and allows enterprises to concentrate on their business. To protect workers,...
Offshore Outsourcing And Productivity
Offshoring of services, either to a foreign affiliate or an external overseas supplier, and its effects on developed economies is at the heart of policy discussion. Whilst macro evidence and case studies are not lacking, few studies have used microeconomic data to analyse this issue and they have only looked...
Moving Towards Comparable Business Demography Statistics
The creation of new businesses and the decline of unproductive ones are often regarded key to business dynamism in OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) economies. Business churn (i.e. entry plus exit rates) is commonly viewed as a measure of the ability of economies to expand the boundaries of...
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