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This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the … and institutions affect employment not only via their impact on aggregate unemployment but also through their effects on … past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are …
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In this paper we present an international comparison of growth trends in the OECD countries, with a special attention to developments in labour productivity - allowing for human capital accumulation – and multifactor productivity (MFP) - allowing for changes in the composition of fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443928
This paper presents empirical estimates of human-capital augmented growth equations for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1971-98. It uses an improved dataset on human capital and a novel econometric technique that reconciles growth model assumptions with the needs of panel data...
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Problems of unemployment and low pay amongst the low-skilled and those with little work experience are severe in many … OECD countries. Employment-conditional schemes are policy instruments designed to increase the employment prospects of the … simulations suggest that employment effects on targeted households are significant while the impact on aggregate employment is …
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and overall employment, and the implications of labour market arrangements for industrial structure and innovation … potential. We also look at the potential implications of regulatory reform for employment security and income inequality. We … data, though the analysis of employment uses also the time-series dimension. To this end, we rely on a large set of …
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different employment growth rates across countries. In the most recent years, a rise in MFP growth in ICT-related industries has …
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In this paper we present comparative evidence from OECD countries concerning the impact of product and labour market regulations on innovation. While product and labour market policies usually aim at objectives other than innovation, they may have important consequences for the profitability of...
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This paper discusses links between policy settings, institutions and economic growth in OECD countries on the basis of cross-country time-series regressions. The econometric approach allows short-term adjustments and convergence speeds to vary across countries, imposing restrictions only on the...
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In this paper, we test whether the growth experience of a sample of OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent with the human-capital augmented Solow model of exogenous growth, or with an endogenous growth model à la Uzawa-Lucas with constant returns to scale to “broad”...
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This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the … and institutions affect employment not only via their impact on aggregate unemployment but also through their effects on … past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045895