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Araújo, Sónia - 2017

Despite significant progress made, improving skills remains one of Portugal’s key challenges for raising growth, living … cooperate with the private sector. This Working Paper relates to the 2017 OECD Economic Survey of Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-portugal.htm). …

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Gross earning inequalities in OECD countries and major non-member economies : determinants and future scenarios

Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2014

Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...

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The drivers of labour income inequality : a literature review

Kierzenkowski, Rafał; Koske, Isabell - 2012

Despite a general trend of increasing labour income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity and even direction of these changes across OECD countries. These stylized facts have led to numerous studies about the main determinants of labour income inequality and, as a...

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Public policy reforms to further improve Portuguese export performance

Westmore, Ben; Adamczyk, Paula - 2019

Portugal’s export performance over the past decade has been impressive, helping to reduce external imbalances. This … comparable small European economies. Further shifting the orientation of the economy to the external sector is vital for Portugal … to focus innovation policies on raising the participation of small and medium enterprises in innovative activities. …

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Determinants of tertiary graduations

Braconier, Henrik - 2015

This paper proposes and estimates a model of demand for and supply of graduations in tertiary education, which is then used to construct forward-looking scenarios for graduation rates by country. Consistent with evidence that economic returns to education have remained high in spite of rising...

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Labour market mismatch and labour productivity : evidence from PIAAC data

McGowan, Muge Adalet; Andrews, Dan - 2015

This paper explores the link between skill and qualification mismatch and labour productivity using cross-country industry data for 19 OECD countries. Utilising mismatch indicators aggregated from micro-data sourced from the recent OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), the main results suggest...

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Skill mismatch and public policy in OECD countries

McGowan, Muge Adalet; Andrews, Dan - 2015

This paper explores the relationship between skill mismatch and public policies using micro data for 22 OECD countries from the recent OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). Results suggest that differences in skill mismatch across countries are related to differences in public policies. After...

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Policy drivers of human capital in the OECD's quantification of structural reforms

Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2019

This paper uses a new measure of human capital that works much better in explaining productivity in OECD countries compared to earlier measures of human capital to investigate the educational policy drivers of human capital. A novel methodology is utilised by interacting educational policies,...

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Educational outcomes : a literature review of policy drivers from a macroeconomic perspective

Smidova, Zuzana - 2019

This paper reviews recent empirical literature on policy drivers of two educational outcomes - years of schooling and rates of return - that form the OECD’s aggregate measure of human capital. The paper sets the literature findings into the context of current educational polices in place in...

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How self-sorting affects migrants’ labour market outcomes

Pareliussen, Jon Kristian - 2017

Assuming that immigrants select destinations according to absolute returns to their observable and unobservable human capital, I present a human capital model of migration accounting for taxes, transfers and limited portability of skills. The model predicts both segmented sorting of migrants to...

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