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Chile : better skills for inclusive growth

Olaberría, Eduardo - 2016

Improving education and skills is the linchpin to reduce income inequality and boost productivity growth. This paper argues that to improve, and make better use of, the skills of the labour force, Chile could gain a lot from a comprehensive and consistent Skills Strategy along three pillars:...

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Boosting productivity and living standards in Thailand

Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Rahuman, Mohamed … - 2018

The Prosperity pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for an integrated approach based on boosting productivity through diversification, upgrading technology and innovation, and increasing employment and entrepreneurship. Thailand needs to address all these challenges to...

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Structural policies to boost productivity and inclusion in Costa Rica

Meehan, Lisa - 2018

employed workers in the population than almost all OECD countries, unemployment remains well above its pre …

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Sectoral and regional distribution of export shocks : what do two hundred thousand UK firm oservations say?

Kierzenkowski, Rafał; Gál, Peter; Fulop, Gabor; … - 2018

This study explores the impact of export shocks on firms and re-aggregates results to derive distributional effects on sectors and regions. In a first step, firm level data are used to assess the empirical relationship between exports and three outcome variables – labour productivity,...

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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers

Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018

Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...

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Can productivity still grow in service-based economies? : literature overview and preliminary evidence from OECD countries

Sorbe, Stéphane; Gál, Peter; Millot, Valentine - 2018

Services employ an ever-increasing share of workers in all OECD countries. This trend is likely to continue as it reflects deep structural forces, such as increasing consumption of services with rising incomes and population ageing and the growing role of intangible assets. Services are very...

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Improving productivity and job quality of low-skilled workers in the United Kingdom

Zwart, Sanne; Baker, Mark - 2018

More than a quarter of adults in the United Kingdom have low basic skills, which has a negative impact on career prospects, job quality and productivity growth. Furthermore, unlike most other countries, young adults do not have stronger basic skills than the generation approaching retirement....

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The quantification of structural reforms

Égert, Balázs - 2018

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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The quantification of structural reforms : introducing country-specific policy effects

Égert, Balázs; Gál, Peter - 2018

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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Raising competitiveness and long-term growth of the Slovenian economy

Sila, Urban; Jemec, Nataša Todorović; Morgavi, Hermes - 2015

The rapid growth after independence stopped in 2008 as the global crisis exposed important structural weaknesses. Large state involvement and rigid labour and product markets lowered productivity. Weak corporate governance and easy credit before the crisis led to high indebtedness and...

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