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No. 1669 | 12 May 2021 |
Improving the well-being of Canadians
For many years now, a growing number of economists, policy makers, and civil society groups have pointed to the limits of using only GDP as the primary measure of national economic progress. Accordingly, a progressively greater focus has been placed... |
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No. 1668 | 07 May 2021 |
Sticky floors or glass ceilings? The role of human capital, working time flexibility and discrimination in the gender wage gap
Despite changes in social norms and policies, on average across 25 European countries, there remains a gap of around 15% in hourly earnings between similarly-qualified men and women. This raises inequality and limits growth by preventing women from... |
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No. 1667 | 26 Apr 2021 |
Greening Lithuania’s growth
This paper provides an overview on Lithuania’s environment and environmental policy. Environmental performance has improved since the mid-2000s. Greenhouse gas emissions declined and decoupled from growth over the past decade, yet per capita... |
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No. 1666 | 26 Apr 2021 |
Framework to discuss corruption in OECD Economic Surveys
The abuse of public office for private gains – discourages business dynamism, reducing investment and innovation, and weighs on growth prospects. It also undermines the equality of opportunities, distorts the income distribution and erodes trust in... |
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No. 1665 | 13 Apr 2021 |
Unleashing the full potential of the Turkish business sector
Productivity in Turkey has been growing stronger than in most peer countries since 2010 but has slowed down. Despite a remarkably entrepreneurial population, business dynamism has also been less vigorous in recent years. This working paper discusses... |
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No. 1664 | 13 Apr 2021 |
When and how do business shutdowns work? Evidence from Italy’s first COVID-19 wave
Governments around the world have adopted unprecedented policies to deal with COVID-19. This paper zooms in on business shutdowns and investigates their effectiveness in reducing mortality. We leverage highly granular death registry data for almost... |
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No. 1663 | 25 Mar 2021 |
Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Bulgaria
Regions with large cities are driving growth in Bulgaria, while many rural regions suffer from depopulation and rapid ageing. Improving living standards across all regions will require better coverage and access to public services, notably in health... |
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No. 1662 | 16 Mar 2021 |
How effective are different social policies in Brazil? A simulation experiment
Brazil spends around 15% of GDP on different social benefits, but within these expenditures, different benefits have different social impacts. While the small conditional cash transfer programme Bolsa Família is well-targeted to the poor and has a... |
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No. 1661 | 16 Mar 2021 |
Improving skills to harness the benefits of a more open economy in Brazil
As Brazil is significantly less integrated into international trade than other emerging market economies, opening up to trade has significant potential to create jobs that are more productive and better paid. At the same time, this will be associated... |
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No. 1660 | 16 Mar 2021 |
Raising productivity through structural reform in Brazil
The recovery from the current deep recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will require raising productivity through structural reforms. This implies a number of challenges for economic policies. With large parts of the economy shielded from... |
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No. 1659 | 05 Mar 2021 |
Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement: evidence from Finland
Among various barriers to increasing employment of older workers, this paper focuses on two notable ones that are relevant for the future of work. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being... |
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No. 1658 | 04 Mar 2021 |
The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the automotive sector in Central and Eastern European Countries
This paper aims at investigating the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the automotive sector in Central and Eastern Europe. It details the effects of the pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures on the activity in the sector. It also discusses the... |
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No. 1657 | 16 Feb 2021 |
A simulation framework to project pension spending: The Czech pension system
This paper presents a simulation framework developed to assess the impact of ageing on the financial sustainability of the Czech pension system. It accompanies the publication OECD Reviews of Pension Systems: Czech Republic. The framework has two... |
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No. 1656 | 22 Feb 2021 |
The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage inequality: A symptom of low job mobility?
Differences in average wages across firms – which account for around one-half of overall wage inequality – are mainly explained by differences in firm wage premia (the part of wages that depends exclusively on characteristics of firms) rather than... |
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No. 1655 | 05 Feb 2021 |
Central Bank Digital Currencies and payments: A review of domestic and international implications
Recent technological developments linked to secure messaging and traceability present an opportunity to address certain challenges in international and domestic payment systems. From an international perspective, foreign exchange markets remain... |
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No. 1654 | 27 Jan 2021 |
Boosting SMEs’ internationalisation in Poland
The rapid internationalisation of the Polish economy has helped develop competitive export-led manufacturing and services sectors fostering robust growth and productivity performance. However, the benefits of this development have been unequal. Many... |
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No. 1653 | 21 Jan 2021 |
Promoting the diffusion of technology to boost productivity and well-being in Korea
Korea is a top player in emerging digital technologies, with an outstanding digital infrastructure and a dynamic ICT sector. The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the importance of digitalisation to contain the spread of the virus, by allowing quick... |
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No. 1652 | 21 Jan 2021 |
Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic
There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of... |
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No. 1651 | 22 Jan 2021 |
Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment of risks and policy responses
This paper investigates the likelihood of corporate insolvency and the potential implications of debt overhang of non-financial corporations induced by economic shock associated with the outbreak of COVID-19. Based on simple accounting models, it... |
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No. 1650 | 22 Dec 2020 |
Regional development in Lithuania: A tale of two economies
Regional differences in GDP per capita, productivity, employment and poverty in Lithuania are among the largest in the OECD, and they have increased over the last decade. This paper looks at potential reasons for persisting disparities and assesses... |
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Improving the well-being of Canadians
Peter Jarrett
12 May 2021
For many years now, a growing number of economists, policy makers, and civil society groups have pointed to the limits of using only GDP as the primary measure of national economic progress. Accordingly, a progressively greater focus has been placed...
Sticky floors or glass ceilings? The role of human capital, working time flexibility and discrimination in the gender wage gap
Gabriele Ciminelli, Cyrille Schwellnus and Balazs Stadler
07 May 2021
Despite changes in social norms and policies, on average across 25 European countries, there remains a gap of around 15% in hourly earnings between similarly-qualified men and women. This raises inequality and limits growth by preventing women from...
Greening Lithuania’s growth
Hansjörg Blöchliger and Sigita Strumskyte
26 Apr 2021
This paper provides an overview on Lithuania’s environment and environmental policy. Environmental performance has improved since the mid-2000s. Greenhouse gas emissions declined and decoupled from growth over the past decade, yet per capita...
Framework to discuss corruption in OECD Economic Surveys
Yosuke Jin
26 Apr 2021
The abuse of public office for private gains – discourages business dynamism, reducing investment and innovation, and weighs on growth prospects. It also undermines the equality of opportunities, distorts the income distribution and erodes trust in...
Unleashing the full potential of the Turkish business sector
Dennis Dlugosch, Rauf Gönenç, Yusuf Kenan Bağır, Hüzeyfe Torun and Eun Jung Kim
13 Apr 2021
Productivity in Turkey has been growing stronger than in most peer countries since 2010 but has slowed down. Despite a remarkably entrepreneurial population, business dynamism has also been less vigorous in recent years. This working paper discusses...
When and how do business shutdowns work? Evidence from Italy’s first COVID-19 wave
Gabriele Ciminelli and Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó
13 Apr 2021
Governments around the world have adopted unprecedented policies to deal with COVID-19. This paper zooms in on business shutdowns and investigates their effectiveness in reducing mortality. We leverage highly granular death registry data for almost...
Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Bulgaria
Mikkel Hermansen
25 Mar 2021
Regions with large cities are driving growth in Bulgaria, while many rural regions suffer from depopulation and rapid ageing. Improving living standards across all regions will require better coverage and access to public services, notably in health...
How effective are different social policies in Brazil? A simulation experiment
Jens Matthias Arnold and Matheus Bueno
16 Mar 2021
Brazil spends around 15% of GDP on different social benefits, but within these expenditures, different benefits have different social impacts. While the small conditional cash transfer programme Bolsa Família is well-targeted to the poor and has a...
Improving skills to harness the benefits of a more open economy in Brazil
Robert Grundke, Jens Matthias Arnold, Matheus Bueno and Priscilla Fialho
16 Mar 2021
As Brazil is significantly less integrated into international trade than other emerging market economies, opening up to trade has significant potential to create jobs that are more productive and better paid. At the same time, this will be associated...
Raising productivity through structural reform in Brazil
Jens Matthias Arnold and Robert Grundke
16 Mar 2021
The recovery from the current deep recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will require raising productivity through structural reforms. This implies a number of challenges for economic policies. With large parts of the economy shielded from...
Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement: evidence from Finland
Naomitsu Yashiro, Tomi Kyyrä, Hyunjeong Hwang and Juha Tuomala
05 Mar 2021
Among various barriers to increasing employment of older workers, this paper focuses on two notable ones that are relevant for the future of work. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being...
The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the automotive sector in Central and Eastern European Countries
Caroline Klein, Jens Høj and Gabriel Machlica
04 Mar 2021
This paper aims at investigating the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the automotive sector in Central and Eastern Europe. It details the effects of the pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures on the activity in the sector. It also discusses the...
A simulation framework to project pension spending: The Czech pension system
Falilou Fall and Paul Cahu
16 Feb 2021
This paper presents a simulation framework developed to assess the impact of ageing on the financial sustainability of the Czech pension system. It accompanies the publication OECD Reviews of Pension Systems: Czech Republic. The framework has two...
The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage inequality: A symptom of low job mobility?
Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Michael Koelle, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Alfred Garloff, Katharzyna Grabska, Ryo Kambayashi, Valerie Lankester, Balazs Stadler, Oskar Nordström Skans, Satu Nurmi, Balazs Murakozy, Richard Upward and Wouter Zwysen
22 Feb 2021
Differences in average wages across firms – which account for around one-half of overall wage inequality – are mainly explained by differences in firm wage premia (the part of wages that depends exclusively on characteristics of firms) rather than...
Central Bank Digital Currencies and payments: A review of domestic and international implications
Lilas Demmou and Quentin Sagot
05 Feb 2021
Recent technological developments linked to secure messaging and traceability present an opportunity to address certain challenges in international and domestic payment systems. From an international perspective, foreign exchange markets remain...
Boosting SMEs’ internationalisation in Poland
Antoine Goujard and Pierre Guérin
27 Jan 2021
The rapid internationalisation of the Polish economy has helped develop competitive export-led manufacturing and services sectors fostering robust growth and productivity performance. However, the benefits of this development have been unequal. Many...
Promoting the diffusion of technology to boost productivity and well-being in Korea
Mathilde Pak
21 Jan 2021
Korea is a top player in emerging digital technologies, with an outstanding digital infrastructure and a dynamic ICT sector. The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the importance of digitalisation to contain the spread of the virus, by allowing quick...
Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic
Urban Sila and Christine de la Maisonneuve
21 Jan 2021
There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of...
Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment of risks and policy responses
Lilas Demmou, Sara Calligaris, Guido Franco, Dennis Dlugosch, Müge Adalet McGowan and Sahra Sakha
22 Jan 2021
This paper investigates the likelihood of corporate insolvency and the potential implications of debt overhang of non-financial corporations induced by economic shock associated with the outbreak of COVID-19. Based on simple accounting models, it...
Regional development in Lithuania: A tale of two economies
Hansjörg Blöchliger and Roland Tusz
22 Dec 2020
Regional differences in GDP per capita, productivity, employment and poverty in Lithuania are among the largest in the OECD, and they have increased over the last decade. This paper looks at potential reasons for persisting disparities and assesses...