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Developments in Global Sourcing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Developments in Global Sourcing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-16
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the fragmentation of production processes across borders, shedding light on global sourcing decisions and their economic effects. Recent decades have seen a fragmentation of production processes across borders, as firms find it increasingly profitable to organize production on a global scale. This fragmentation occurs across national borders as well as across firm boundaries; companies must decide not only the location of production but also how much control to exert over the different production stages. Economists have responded to this shift by developing new models of global sourcing, generating important insights into the driving forces and econo...

The New Goliaths
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The New Goliaths

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge “Bessen is a master of unpacking the nuances of a complex array of interrelated trends to build a coherent story of how the promise of the democratized Internet ended up under the control of just a few. Read The New Goliaths to see how the forest came to have only room for a few tall trees with the rest of us in the undergrowth.”—Joshua Gans, coauthor of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence Historically, competition has powered progress under capitalism. Companies with productive new products rise to...

Net Zero+ Climate and Economic Resilience in a Changing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Net Zero+ Climate and Economic Resilience in a Changing World

This report provides a synthesis of the OECD Net Zero+ project, covering the first phase of an ongoing, cross-cutting initiative, representing a major step forward for an OECD whole-of-government approach to climate policy.

Ageing and Employment Policies Promoting Better Career Choices for Longer Working Lives Stepping Up Not Stepping Out
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Ageing and Employment Policies Promoting Better Career Choices for Longer Working Lives Stepping Up Not Stepping Out

This report presents evidence on recent trends in career mobility and the consequences for individual workers in terms of pay and other job characteristics.

Going Digital: Shaping Policies, Improving Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 171

Going Digital: Shaping Policies, Improving Lives

This report identifies seven policy dimensions that allow governments – together with citizens, firms and stakeholders – to shape digital transformation to improve lives. It also highlights key opportunities, challenges and policies related to each dimension, offers new insights, evidence and analysis, and provides recommendations for better policies in the digital age.

Measuring the Digital Transformation A Roadmap for the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Measuring the Digital Transformation A Roadmap for the Future

Measuring the Digital Transformation: A Roadmap for the Future provides new insights into the state of the digital transformation by mapping indicators across a range of areas – from education and innovation, to trade and economic and social outcomes – against current digital policy issues, as presented in Going Digital: Shaping Policies, Improving Lives.

Getting Skills Right Training in Enterprises New Evidence from 100 Case Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Getting Skills Right Training in Enterprises New Evidence from 100 Case Studies

Enterprises are a key provider of education and training for adults across OECD countries. Yet, policy-makers lack a detailed understanding of how training in enterprises takes place. This report opens the black box of training and informal learning in enterprises by providing in-depth insights on: i) what training and learning opportunities enterprises provide; ii) why they provide training (or not); and iii) how they make decisions about training.

OECD Skills Strategy 2019 Skills to Shape a Better Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

OECD Skills Strategy 2019 Skills to Shape a Better Future

The OECD Skills Strategy provides a strategic and comprehensive approach for ensuring that people and countries have the skills to thrive in a complex, interconnected and rapidly changing world. The updated 2019 OECD Skills Strategy takes account of the lessons learned from applying the original skills strategy in 11 countries since 2012...

OECD Skills Studies Strengthening the Governance of Skills Systems Lessons from Six OECD Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

OECD Skills Studies Strengthening the Governance of Skills Systems Lessons from Six OECD Countries

Strengthening the Governance of Skills Systems: Lessons from Six OECD Countries provides advice on how to make the governance of skills systems effective. Building on the OECD Skills Strategy 2019, which identified four main challenges of skills systems governance, the report presents examples of how six different countries (Estonia, Germany, Korea, Norway, Portugal and the United States) have responded to one or several of these challenges.

Promoting Digital Business Skills in the Republic of Moldova
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 81

Promoting Digital Business Skills in the Republic of Moldova

The Republic of Moldova has made digitalisation a policy priority. The country is currently preparing its Digital Transformation Strategy 2023-30, which will emphasise digital literacy, as well as digital business skills, with a view to improving private sector competitiveness.