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Explaining Differences in Hours Worked among OECD Countries : An empirical analysis
Causa, Orsetta - 2008
. Secondly, working-time regulations have a significant impact on hours worked by men, and this impact differs across education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446768
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Education Attainment in Brazil : The Experience of FUNDEF
de Mello, Luiz - 2005
-national spending on primary and lower-secondary education. Using state- and municipality-level data during 1991-2002, this paper shows … importance of FUNDEF in eliminating supply constraints to the improvement of education attainment. Enrolment rates are now nearly … universal for primary and lower-secondary education. Emphasis should therefore be placed on policies to improve the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445751
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801153
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801178
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801196
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630293
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630503
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs - 2022
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 (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202479
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Changes in the geography housing demand after the onset of COVID-19: First results from large metropolitan areas in 13 OECD countries
Ahrend, Rudiger - 2022
The paper introduces a novel, granular house-price dataset sourced from a network of public and private data providers. It offers the first results of investigations into changes in the urban geography of housing markets following the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid rise of working from home...
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