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The Impact of Product and Labour Market Reform on Growth : Evidence for OECD Countries Based on Local Projections

de Haan, Jakob - 2020

This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...

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Optimal Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits

Taslimi, Mohammad - 2003

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is lower replacement rate for employees with relatively high earnings. This paper examines whether replacement rates should decrease as the level of earnings rises. The framework is...

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Cross-national differences in income poverty among Europe´s 50+

Hallberg, Daniel - 2006

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in...

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Occupations Shape Retirement Across Countries

Sauré, Philip U.; Seibold, Arthur; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta - 2023

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement...

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Ageing and productivity growth: are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?

Werding, Martin - 2008

Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...

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Aging and Health Care Expenditures : A Non-Parametric Approach

Lorenz, Normann - 2020

One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the … expenditures of the high age classes and thus overstates the increase of future HCE due to aging. Secondly, we show that the non … find that population aging will in fact contribute to rising HCE in the coming decades. We also find that the impact of …

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Who is on the rise in Austria: Wage mobility and mobility risk

Raferzeder, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2004

In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We...

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Unemployment in an interdependent world

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

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Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in Student to Degree Match

Campbell, Stuart; Murphy, Richard; Macmillan, Lindsey; … - 2021

This paper examines inequalities in the match between student and degree quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We...

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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations

Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - 2007

For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...

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