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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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Do Labor Market Institutions Influcence Suicide Mortality? An International Panel Data Analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2021

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970-2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature our results suggest that...

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Flexicurity, Wage Dynamics and Inequality Over the Life-Cycle

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; … - 2021

We investigate the relationship between life-cycle wages and flexicurity in Denmark. We separate permanent from transitory wages and characterise flexicurity using membership of unemployment insurance funds. We find that flexicurity is associated with lower wage growth heterogeneity over the...

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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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