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Egert, Balazs - 2021

Aggregate business investment is a major driver of long-term economic growth. It has been weak in many advanced economies over the last decade, partly due to cyclical demand-side effects. Nevertheless, a number of structural factors and policies interact with and have an effect on business...

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The Effect of Structural Reforms: Do They Differ between GDP and Adjusted Household Disposable Income?

Botev, Jamila; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2022

The paper considers whether structural reforms have a different impact on adjusted household disposable income (AHDI) compared to GDP, particularly given that while the latter is currently used as the basis for the OECD Economics Department's framework for evaluating the effect of structural...

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Quantifying the Macroeconomic Impact of Covid-19-Related School Closures through the Human Capital Channel

de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Egert, Balazs; Turner, David - 2023

This paper uses a new measure of human capital, which distinguishes both quality and quantity components, to estimate the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel. Productivity losses build up over time and are estimated...

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Quantifying the Macroeconomic Impact of COVID-19-Related School Closures Through the Human Capital Channel

la Maisonneuve, Christine de; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023

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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC : Linking Education Policies to Productivity

Égert, Balázs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022

This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...

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The Effect of Structural Reforms : Do They Differ between GDP and Adjusted Household Disposable Income?

Botev, Jamila; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2022

The paper considers whether structural reforms have a different impact on adjusted household disposable income (AHDI) compared to GDP, particularly given that while the latter is currently used as the basis for the OECD Economics Department’s framework for evaluating the effect of structural...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244328

The Contribution of Human Capital and its Policies to Per Capita Income in Europe and the OECD

Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2021

This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...

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Regulation, Institutions, and Productivity: New Macroeconomic Evidence from OECD Countries

Egert, Balazs - 2017

institutions. For a panel of OECD countries, we find that anticompetitive product market regulations are associated with lower MFP … of product market regulations on MFP may depend on the level of labour market regulations. Better institutions, a more … in labour market regulations, barriers to trade and investment and institutions (including corruption). …

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Brixiova, Zuzana; Egert, Balazs - 2017

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment …

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Optimal redistributive taxation and provision of public input goods in an economy with outsourcing and unemployment

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2008

taxation. In addition, the appearance of equilibrium unemployment also provides an incentive for the government to directly tax …

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