lessons from pensions, product markets and labour markets in ten OECD countries /
by William Tompson in collaboration with Robert Price.
Paris :
OECD,
2009.
497 p. :
ill. ;
27 cm.
Also available in French under the title: L'economie politique de la reforme : systemes de retraite et marches du travail et des produits dans dix pays de l'OCDE.
Includes bibliographical references.
Structural policy reform : learning from the past -- Case studies in pension-system reform -- Case studies in labour-market reform -- Case studies in product-market reform.
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France; Italy; Mexico; Poland; United States; Germany; The Netherlands; Spain; Sweden; Australia.
This report examines why some policy reforms get implemented and others languish by examining 20 structural reform efforts in 10 OECD countries over the past two decades. The case studies cover a wide variety of reform attempts in three key areas: pensions, labor- and product-market regulation. Key factors in the political, economic and reform-specific arenas are identified as helping or hindering reform, and these findings are cross-checked using a relatively simple set of Spearman rank correlations. The report's two-pronged analytical approach - quantitative and qualitative - provides insights for policy makers designing, adopting and implementing structural policy reforms.--Publisher's description.
Economic stabilization-- OECD countries.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)-- OECD countries, Case studies.
OECD countries, Economic policy, Case studies.
OECD countries, Economic policy.
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Tompson, William J.
Price, Robert W. R.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.