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Inflation has become much less sensitive to movements in unemployment in recent decades. A common explanation for this … unemployment gap which underlie the OECD’s Economic Outlook projections. The former OECD specification can be characterised as a … backward-looking specification, the anchored expectations approach also tends to imply larger unemployment gaps for those …
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This document describes and discusses a new supply side framework that quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income in OECD countries. It presents the overall macroeconomic impacts of reforms by aggregating over the effects on physical capital, employment and productivity...
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of (legal) institutions alters the overall impact of regulations on capital deepening: better institutions reduce the …
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whether policy effects vary across countries depending on the level of economic development and whether institutions have an … influence on economic outcomes. The paper lists of policies and institutions that could be used to quantify the effect of …
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stance of other policies and institutions. This approach allows for the incorporation of a potentially large set of … additional policy areas including institutions and policy areas with limited time-series availability (e.g. sub-components of the … institutions such as the rule of law indicator or the efficiency of the legal system). Results suggest that for instance, when more …
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This paper calculates new measures of human capital. Contrary to the existing literature, they are based on realistic rates of return to education, which are allowed to vary substantially across countries and to some extent over time. The new measures perform well in regression analysis...
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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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A statistically significant relationship between the unemployment gap and inflation can be found for a clear majority …
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non-OECD countries. The findings suggest that the quality of institutions matters to a large extent for economic outcomes …
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