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	OECD Economic Surveys: France 2005
	OECD. Published by : OECD Publishing

	Version: E-book (PDF Format)
	Price: €29 \| $36 \| £19 \| ¥3900 \|

Availability: Available Publication date: 31 Aug 2005 Language: English Pages: 178 Tables: 16 Charts: 45 ISBN: 9789264011496 OECD Code: 102005101E1 Frequency: Every 18 months

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This 2005 OECD Economic Survey of France focuses on three key challenges faced by France: making the fiscal system sustainable, improving labour market performance, and product market competition. The chapter on the fiscal system includes annexes on ageing and health care expenditure and reforms to the health care system. The chapter on labour markets includes annexes showing the evolution of employment protection legislation and analysing collective bargaining reform of April 2004.

Other languages: French (Available)

Superseded by: OECD Economic Surveys: France 2009 - (Available)

Other Versions: Print - Paperback

Table of contents:

Executive Summary
Assessment and Recommendations
Chapter 1. Key Challenges Facing France
-Putting the Fiscal System on a Sound Footing and Reducing its Negative Effects
-Improving the Functioning of the Labour Market
-Improving Competition in Product Markets
Chapter 2. Making the Fiscal System Sustainable and More Efficient
-Achieving Fiscal Sustainability
-Simplifying the Tax System and Reducing its Effects on the Economy
Chapter 3. Improving Labour Market Performance
-The Development of the Labour Market over the Past Decade
-The Labour Code, Jurisprudence, and Administrative Procedures Provide High Protection to Workers
-Legislation Has Significantly Reduced Hours Worked
-Wage Setting is Constrained for Wages Close to the Minimum Wage, but Relative Decentralised Otherwise
-Labour Taxes Have Been Cut for Low-Paid Workers but Labour at the Level of the SMIC Remains High
-The Unemployment Benefit System Has Been Reformed buy Inactivity Traps Remain
-The Labour Market Needs Global Reform
Chapter 4. Product Market Competition and Economic Performance
-Macroeconomic Performance and Indicators of Competition
-Competition Law
-Public Ownership
-Sector Analysis
-Macroeconomic Effects of Regulatory Reform
-Overall Assessment and Scope for Further Action

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