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Employment is pivotal to strengthening Greece’s economic recovery, increasing social welfare and redressing poverty … that workers possess skills that match employers’ needs will sustain employment and productivity growth. Improving the …
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, employment rate) to various labour, product market and tax reforms are estimated at different horizons. This analysis indicates …
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As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...
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This paper analyses the monetary and fiscal policy implications of output gap estimates in times of crisis. The widening of output gaps observed in major OECD economies in the wake of the recent crisis has been mainly due to total factor productivity gaps, except in the United States where it...
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Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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setting institutions are found to be robust policy determinants of the aggregate employment and unemployment rates. Looking … beyond the overall employment impact, outcomes for vulnerable groups such as the low educated, the youth and the elderly tend … competition-friendly product market regulations are also found to impact aggregate employment rates positively and significantly …
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In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called “Family 500+”, with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
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-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …
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&D spending. Tax wedge reduction leads to less employment gains when EPL is not very stringent. …
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businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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