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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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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2008

Reforms of employment protection (EPL) in Europe eased the recourse to temporary forms of employment while not reducing the strictness of EPL of permanent jobs (with the exception of Spain). Since 1990, such two-tier reforms have been implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the...

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An Unemployment Re-Insurance Scheme for the Eurozone? Stabilizing and Redistributive Effects

Dolls, Mathias - 2020

This paper develops a decomposition framework to study the importance of different stabilization channels of an unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area. Running counterfactual simulations based on household micro data for the period 2000–16, the paper finds that the re-insurance...

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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie F. - 2020

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...

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Nursing Homes and Mortality in Europe : Uncertain Causality

Flawinne, Xavier; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2022

matching methods, we observe excess mortality in Belgium, France, Germany Luxembourg, Switzerland, Estonia and Czech Republic …

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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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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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