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This paper assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts for firm heterogeneity. The results provide...
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Significant labour market mismatches and insufficient mobility penalise employment and productivity. Mismatches have above all a skills dimension, with an excess of low-skilled workers and a possible lack of skilled workers in certain domains. Reducing the high tax wedge on low salaries and...
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This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and their productivity benefits. Increasing access...
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Owing to slow growth and a relatively weak fiscal position, Portugal’s public debt had been rising for almost a decade … Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/portugal). …
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This paper illustrates possible trade-offs between two different fiscal consolidation strategies in Portugal: sticking … to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/portugal). …
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