TY - BOOK ID - 8209172 TI - The political economy of reform : lessons from pensions, product markets and labour markets in ten OECD countries AU - Tompson, William. AU - Price, Robert. AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. PY - 2009 SN - 1282304623 9786612304620 9264073116 926407306X PB - Paris, France : OECD, DB - UniCat KW - Economic stabilization --OECD countries. KW - OECD countries --Economic policy --Case studies. KW - OECD countries --Economic policy. KW - Structural adjustment (Economic policy) --OECD countries --Case studies. KW - Structural adjustment (Economic policy) KW - Economic stabilization KW - Economic History KW - Business & Economics KW - Pensions KW - Manpower policy KW - OECD countries KW - Economic policy. KW - Employment policy KW - Human resource development KW - Labor market KW - Labor market policy KW - Manpower utilization KW - Compensation KW - Pension plans KW - Retirement pensions KW - Superannuation KW - Government policy KW - Labor policy KW - Labor supply KW - Trade adjustment assistance KW - Retirement income KW - Annuities KW - Social security individual investment accounts KW - Vested benefits UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8209172 AB - 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, labour- 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 – results in unique insights for policy makers designing, adopting and implementing structural policy reforms. ER -