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Employment-Productivity Trade-off and Labour Composition

Boulhol, Hervé - 2009

This paper formalises the analysis of the employment-productivity trade-off by extending the framework developed by Gordon (1997) to account for labour heterogeneity. The extent of the trade-off is determined by the extent of the adjustment of capital to effective labour and by the changes in...

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The Effects of Population Structure on Employment and Productivity

Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

The composition of the working-age population can influence aggregate employment and average productivity because both employment rates and productivity levels vary across population groups. This paper assesses the quantitative importance of the working-age population broken down by age, gender...

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Employment-Productivity Trade-off and Labour Composition

Boulhol, Hervé; Turner, Laure - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

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Labour Market Performance by Age Groups: A Focus on France

Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age …-specific unemployment rates to the economic cycle is provided for OECD countries. France is one of the OECD countries having the highest …’s total unemployment rate differential with best-performing countries. Youth unemployment rate is especially sensitive to …

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Making the Labour Market Work Better in Poland

Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...

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The Distributional Consequences of Tax Reforms under Market Distortions

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Jiang, Wei; Malley, Jim - CESifo - 2011

In this paper we examine the importance of imperfect competition in product and labour markets in determining the long-run welfare effects of tax reforms assuming agent heterogeneity in capital holdings. Each of these market failures, independently, results in welfare losses for at least a...

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The Optimal Distribution of the Tax Burden over the Business Cycle

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2013

This paper analyses optimal income taxes over the business cycle under a balanced-budget restriction, for low, middle and high income households. A model incorporating capital-skill complementarity in production and differential access to capital and labour markets is developed to capture the...

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The Declining Competitiveness of French Firms Reflects a Generalised Supply-Side Problem

Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

This short paper analyses the decline of France’s trade balance over the past 15 years. While the loss in export market shares is comparable to that of the major OECD countries except Germany, it is one of the largest among the countries of the euro area. The determinants of this outcome seem...

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Can Subsidising Job-Related Training Reduce Inequality?

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2017

A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK data, we further find that job-related training is positively related to subsidies aimed at reducing training costs for employers. We also find that there is a positive, albeit...

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Fiscal Multipliers in a Two-Sector Search and Matching Model

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2015

This paper evaluates the effects of policy interventions on sectoral labour markets and the aggregate economy in a business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital-skill complementarity in production, labour markets with skilled and...

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