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’accroître sa volatilité. L’analyse empirique combinant l’estimation de modèles non-linéaires basés sur des données de panel …
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This paper explores the short-term effects of labour and product market reforms through a dynamic general equilibrium model that features endogenous producer entry, equilibrium unemployment and costly job creation and destruction. Unlike in existing work, the link between labour and product...
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Social safety nets protect citizens against hardship. By offering compensation, social safety nets may help overcome the political resistance to trade liberalisation and structural reform, but they can also weaken the incentives to work and save. Depending on their design, safety nets may also...
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An ambitious reform to increase efficiency of the Portuguese health care system was launched in 2002. In contrast to … health sector, making changes essentially irreversible. The reform has two main aims: to deliver better-quality public health … services than at present but at no higher cost; and to reduce the underlying growth rate of public health-care spending over …
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Policy reforms aimed at boosting long-run growth often have side effects – positive or negative – on an economy’s vulnerability to shocks and their propagation. Macroeconomic shocks as severe and protracted as those since 2007 warrant a reconsideration of the role growth-promoting policies...
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This paper examines the characteristics of downturns and subsequent recoveries following past banking crises in OECD countries as well as evidence of any effects on potential output growth. It is differentiated from previous analyses because it makes use of OECD measures of the output gap and...
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The highly regarded Austrian health system delivers good quality and easily accessible services, but is costly. Its … competition opportunities are de facto limited in most health markets. The system operates therefore on a supply-driven basis, and … of good health outcomes and suffer important differences between social groups, raising risks for the future. This …
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The Estonian fiscal position is much better than in many OECD countries, the country stands out for having a rather lean government sector and the authorities are striving for efficient use of existing resources. Both healthcare and local government were particularly hit the by the decrease of...
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This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections till 2060, following up on … the previous set of projections published in 2006. It disentangles health from longterm care expenditure as well as the … underlying determinants of health and long-term care spending and by extending the country coverage to include BRIICS countries …
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This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections until 2060, seven years after … a first set of projections was published by the OECD. It disentangles health from longterm care expenditure, as well as … country coverage. Regarding health care, nondemographic drivers are identified, with an attempt to better understand the …
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