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Has the Rise in Debt Made Households More Vulnerable?

Girouard, Nathalie - 2006

This paper reviews, for a number of OECD economies, macroeconomic developments in household balance sheets over the … past two decades. The main findings show that the rise in household debt to historical levels has been driven by a … for first-time homebuyers. Total household net wealth has risen and provided households with a financial cushion against a …

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The Government Household Transfer Data Base 1960-1984

Varley, Rita - 1986

The Government Household Transfer data base (GHT) consists of annual statistics on social security and welfare …

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The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage inequality: A symptom of low job mobility?

Criscuolo, Chiara - 2021

Differences in average wages across firms – which account for around one-half of overall wage inequality – are mainly explained by differences in firm wage premia (the part of wages that depends exclusively on characteristics of firms) rather than workforce composition. Using a new...

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Sticky floors or glass ceilings? The role of human capital, working time flexibility and discrimination in the gender wage gap

Ciminelli, Gabriele - 2021

Despite changes in social norms and policies, on average across 25 European countries, there remains a gap of around 15% in hourly earnings between similarly-qualified men and women. This raises inequality and limits growth by preventing women from reaching their full labour market potential....

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Mortgage finance across OECD countries

van Hoenselaar, Frank - 2021

The landscapes of housing loan markets vary considerably across OECD countries, reflecting differences in preferences and policy settings. This paper first draws a topography of disparities in mortgage structure, documenting considerable variation across OECD countries in key features such as in...

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Migration, housing and regional disparities: A gravity model of inter-regional migration with an application to selected OECD countries

Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2021

Inter-regional migration – the movements of the population from one region to another within the same country – can be an important mechanism of spatial economic adjustment, affecting regional demographic and growth patterns. This paper examines the economic and housing-related factors that...

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Labour market transitions across OECD countries: Stylised facts

Causa, Orsetta - 2021

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of patterns and trends of worker transitions across European countries and the United States, with an emphasis on differences across socio-economic groups. Understanding labour market transitions is important to gauge the scope of labour market...

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The tortoise and the hare: The race between vaccine rollout and new COVID variants

Turner, David - 2021

New variants of the virus are spreading which, together with seasonal effects, are estimated to be able to raise effective reproduction numbers by up to 90%. Meanwhile, many countries are rolling out vaccination programmes, but at varying speeds. Hence the race is on to beat the variants with...

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COVID-19, productivity and reallocation: Timely evidence from three OECD countries

Andrews, Dan - 2021

The longer run consequences of the pandemic will partly hinge on its impact on high productivity firms, and the ongoing process of labour reallocation from low to high productivity firms. While Schumpeter (1939) proposed that recessions can accelerate this process, the nature of the COVID-19...

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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking education policies to productivity

Égert, Balázs - 2022

This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...

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