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Immigration and economic growth in the OECD countries 1986 - 2006

Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - 2015

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on GDP per capita, and second, a permanent increase in migration ows has a positive effect on productivity growth …. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …

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Immigration, growth and unemployment : panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2013

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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Consolidating the Covid debt

Keuschnigg, Christian; Johs, Julian; Stevens, Jacob - 2021

growth enhancing tax and expenditure reform. We quantitatively illustrate that this reform based strategy, by … reapingsubstantial efficiency gains and inducing strong growth, eliminates the Covid debt, protects per capita social entitlements and …

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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Product variety and economic growth : empirical evidence for the OECD countries

Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf - 2000

Utilizing panel data for 19 OECD countries we find suppor t for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the US helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export...

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Ideologically-charged terminology : austerity, fiscal consolidation, and sustainable governance

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

-2014 and examine how austerity is associated with economic growth. The results show that depending on how austerity is measured …

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Tax policy and economic growth : does it really matter?

Baiardi, Donatella; Profeta, Paola; Puglisi, Riccardo; … - 2017

associated with higher long-run economic growth. We study the relationships between per capita GDP, overall tax revenue and tax …

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The contribution of human capital and its policies to per capita income in Europe and the OECD

Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2020

This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...

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Ageing and the welfare state : securing sustainability

Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - 2010

Over the next four decades, increasing old-age dependency ratios exert an enormous upward pressure on welfare spending in most developed countries. As this is mainly due to existing unfunded public pension schemes, many countries have embarked on far-reaching reforms in this area, strengthening...

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Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

This paper provides new evidence on the sustainability of public finances in German states (Laender) by exploiting a newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability by applying "gsecond generation" panel cointegration...

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