Human Capital Investment : An international Comparison

Human Capital Investment An international Comparison

Investment in human capital is to the fore of debate and analysis in OECD countries about how to promote economic prosperity, fuller employment, and social cohesion. Individuals, organisations and nations increasingly recognise that high levels of knowledge, skills and competencies are essential to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Centre for Educational Research and Innovation Content Provider (content provider)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 1998.
Materias:
Social Issues/Migration/Health
Employment
Education
Education > Economic aspects > OECD countries
Labor supply > Effect of education on > OECD countries
Human capital > OECD countries
Social Sciences
Education, Special Topics
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009704941006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Executive Summary
  • Assessments and Recommendations
  • Chapter 1. Maintaining a Strong Performance: The Challenges Ahead
  • -Preserving macroeconomic stability and competitiveness
  • Raising productivity growth while maintaining strong job creation
  • Implementing a strategy in response to global warming
  • Ensuring sound public finances, while keeping a lid on spending in a decentralised framework
  • The government's strategy in perspective
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 2. Preserving Macroeconomic Stability and Competitiveness
  • -Recent trends and short-term prospects
  • Reducing the inflation differential with the euro area
  • Stabilising the housing market
  • Continuing with a prudent fiscal policy is vital
  • Bibliography
  • Annex 2.A1. The Role of Supply and Demand Effects on the Rise in Property Prices
  • Chapter 3. Raising Productivity Growth while Maintaining Strong Job Creation
  • -The need for further reform
  • Improving human capital investment
  • Boosting research and development and the adoption of new technologies
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 4. Getting the Most out of Public Sector Decentralisation
  • -Forces shaping fiscal relations across levels of government
  • Spending assignment issues
  • Financing arrangements for regional governments
  • Managing fiscal policy in a decentralised framework
  • An agenda for further reform
  • Bibliography
  • Annex 4.A1. Recent Reforms of the Local Government Financing System
  • Chapter 5. Reforming the Pension System
  • -The need to reform the public pension system
  • Promoting an increase int he employment rate for women and older workers
  • Reappraising the incentives in favour of private pensions
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Annex A. Progress on Structural Reform

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