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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186787
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The quantification of structural reforms : taking stock of the results for OECD and non-OECD countries
Égert, Balázs - 2020
-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388225
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital with strong empirical links to productivity
Botev, Jarmila; Égert, Balázs; Smidova, Zuzana; … - 2019
measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202839
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The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2023
-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new … losses in long-run aggregate productivity operating through the human capital channel could be at about 7% if the war lasts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304472
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Real exchange rates in small open OECD and transition economies: comparing apples with oranges?
Égert, Balázs; Lommatzsch, Kirsten; Lahrèche-Révil, … - 2007
We find that productivity gains in tradables cause an appreciation of the real exchange rate via both tradable and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264076
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Modeling institutions, start-ups and productivity during transition
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2010
, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced economies. In contrast, in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent … States, which embarked on reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273819
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Equilibrium Exchange Rate in the Czech Republic: How Good is the Czech BEER?
Babetskii, Ian; Égert, Balázs - 2005
MacDonald (1998) in that the Czech real exchange rate vis-à-vis the euro is regressed on the dual productivity differential and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476677
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Nominal and Real Convergence in Estonia: The Balassa-Samuelson (dis)connection
Égert, Balázs - 2003
for the period 1993:Q1 to 2002:Q1 to show that the productivity differential is related to the GDP-deflator relative price …: we show that excluding regulated prices makes it possible to detect a robust relationship between productivity and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477083
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Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Transition Economies: Taking Stock of the Issues
Égert, Balázs; Halpern, László; MacDonald, Ronald - 2005
In this paper we present an overview of a number of issues relating to the equilibrium exchange rates of transition economies of the former soviet bloc. In particular, we present a critical overview of the various methods available for calculating equilibrium exchange rates and discuss how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477512
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The Effect of Structural Reforms: Do They Differ between GDP and Adjusted Household Disposable Income?
Botev, Jamila; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2022
group of structural policies, typically those where the transmission mechanism depends mainly on productivity and capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427751