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The Quantification of Structural Reforms: Taking Stock of the Results for OECD and Non-OECD Countries
Egert, Balazs - 2020
whether policy effects vary across countries depending on the level of economic development and whether institutions have an … influence on economic outcomes. The paper lists of policies and institutions that could be used to quantify the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425684
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The Quantification of Structural Reforms: Extending the Framework to Emerging Market Economies
Egert, Balazs - 2018
non-OECD countries. The findings suggest that the quality of institutions matters to a large extent for economic outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815814
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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking Education Policies to Productivity
Egert, Balazs; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266693
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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/10013427751
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290306
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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). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657128
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657172