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Responding to Key Well-being Challenges in Austria

Gönenç, Rauf; Röhn, Oliver; Beer, Christian; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

contribution periods and retirement length and income according to their preferences, without threatening fiscal sustainability …

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The Effects of Population Structure on Employment and Productivity

Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

The composition of the working-age population can influence aggregate employment and average productivity because both employment rates and productivity levels vary across population groups. This paper assesses the quantitative importance of the working-age population broken down by age, gender...

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Assessing the Robustness of Demographic Projections in OECD Countries

Gonand, Frédéric - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

This paper aims at assessing the robustness of demographic projections to different assumptions on mortality, fertility …. However, uncertainty about future longevity gains and fertility rates account for a large range of results for dependency … ratios by 2050. Eventually, a long lasting surge in fertility may not be enough to fully offset the impact on dependency …

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Employment-Productivity Trade-off and Labour Composition

Boulhol, Hervé; Turner, Laure - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper formalises the analysis of the employment-productivity trade-off by extending the framework developed by Gordon (1997) to account for labour heterogeneity. The extent of the trade-off is determined by the extent of the adjustment of capital to effective labour and by the changes in...

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The Short-Term Effects of Structural Reforms: An Empirical Analysis

Bouis, Romain; Causa, Orsetta; Demmou, Lilas; Duval, Romain - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

Drawing on new empirical analysis of 30 years of structural reforms across the OECD, this paper sheds light on the impact of reforms over time, identifies the horizon over which their full effects materialise, and investigates whether such effects vary with prevailing economic conditions and...

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Raising Investment in Brazil

Arnold, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential reasons for these low investment rates and discusses policy options to achieve faster capital accumulation. A shortage of domestic saving appears to be a major constraint to...

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After the Crisis: Mitigating Risks of Macroeconomic Instability in Turkey

Rawdanowicz, Łukasz - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Turkey is recovering from a severe recession. Once growth gains full speed, the authorities will likely face the challenge of widening external imbalances and of ensuring a smooth functioning of the financial markets. The former will require improving competitiveness, raising domestic saving,...

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The Impact of Structural Policies on Saving, Investment and Current Accounts

Kerdrain, Clovis; Koske, Isabell; Wanner, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

This paper explores the impact of structural policies on saving, investment, and current accounts in OECD and non-OECD economies. Since the current account effects of structural reforms are often complex and ambiguous from a theoretical perspective, new OECD empirical analysis is carried out....

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A Simple Model of the Relationship Between Productivity, Saving and the Current Account

Fournier, Jean-Marc; Koske, Isabell - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

This paper uses a simple dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to explore the qualitative impact of productivity shocks on current account positions via their impact on the saving behaviour of households. The analysis shows that the direction of the impact is ambiguous from a theoretical...

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How Important is Wealth for Explaining Household Consumption Over the Recent Crisis?: An Empirical Study for the United States, Japan and the Euro Area

Kerdrain, Clovis - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

This paper provides new empirical results linking financial and housing wealth to household consumption for the United States, Japan and the euro area. The results suggest that there are important cross-country differences in how wealth, especially housing wealth, affects consumption. They...

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