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Comparative Analysis of Firm Demographics and Survival : Micro-Level Evidence for the OECD Countries
Bartelsman, Eric - 2003
This paper presents evidence on firm demographics and firm survival for a group of ten OECD countries. For each country a dataset of sectoral indicators of firm dynamics has been created using information from business registers. The patterns of firm entry, exit, survival and employment growth...
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Policies to increase youth employment in Korea
Jones, Randall S... - 2022
Korea’s low youth employment rate has negative consequences for the young people concerned and the economy as a whole …. Raising youth employment is a priority, particularly as Korea faces the most rapid population ageing among OECD countries. Low … youth employment is due to a mismatch between education and the labour market, reflecting a large skill gap between highly …
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Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training in Costa Rica to better support growth and equity
Maravalle, Alessandro - 2023
Education and training are a high priority for Costa Rica that devotes to them more than 6.5% of GDP, one of the highest spending shares among OECD countries. However, educational outcomes remain poor and firms struggle to fill their vacancies, particularly in technical and scientific positions,...
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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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Understanding differences in vaccination uptake among OECD countries
Turner, David - 2022
Resolving stark differences between rich and poor countries in vaccine coverage against COVID is a global policy priority for 2022. However, even among OECD countries, there currently remain surprisingly large differences in vaccine coverage and this paper attempts to explain these differences,...
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