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No. 211 | 18 Feb 1999 |
The Recent Experience with Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies
This paper summarises key points of the recent extensive discussion of the factors behind the volatility of cross-border capital flows in emerging market countries and possible corrective measures. The root cause of the recent volatility of capital... |
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No. 210 | 10 Feb 1999 |
Foreign Portfolio Investors Before and during a Crisis
Different categories of foreign portfolio investors in Korea have differences as well as similarities in their trading behavior before and during the currency crisis. First, non-resident institutional investors are always positive feedback traders,... |
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No. 209 | 10 Feb 1999 |
Towards More Efficient Government
In Germany fiscal relations between the various levels of government have come to the fore of the policy debate. In practice the federal fiscal set-up has evolved towards consensus and co-operation, where equalisation of living standards takes... |
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No. 208 | 02 Dec 1998 |
Stock Market Fluctuations and Consumption Behaviour
This paper examines the likely influence of recent stock market fluctuations on major OECD economies, focusing on wealth effects and consumption. After reviewing the relevant theoretical framework and available empirical evidence, consumption... |
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No. 207 | 24 Jun 1998 |
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
It has been suggested that much of the dramatic decline in the participation rate of Dutch elderly has been caused by features of the Dutch retirement income support system. The Dutch system consists of several alternative schemes that can be used to... |
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No. 206 | 24 Jun 1998 |
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the retirement decision in the United Kingdom. We distinguish four retirement routes: retirement, unemployment, long-term sickness and other states. The focus of the paper is the impact of pension benefits... |
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No. 205 | 23 Jun 1998 |
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
This paper exploits an Italian microeconomic data set to study retirement behaviour of women and men using survival analysis techniques. After a brief introduction to the Italian pension system and to the Bank of Italy survey, different... |
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No. 204 | 24 Jun 1998 |
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
This paper analyses the determinants of the retirement decision in Germany using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period 1985-1995. Non-parametric and semi-parametric techniques have been used to describe the exit to... |
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No. 203 | 23 Jun 1998 |
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
Using three waves of the ongoing Health and Retirement Survey, we document the labour force withdrawal patterns of a sample of older Americans aged 55-61 and working in 1992. We note the importance of Social Security and employer pension benefits for... |
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No. 202 | 15 Feb 1999 |
The Retirement Decision in OECD Countries
This paper examines the main determinants of the decision to retire from the labour market in OECD countries, and in particular the role of social security systems in driving down the labour-force participation rate of older people in recent decades.... |
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No. 201 | 23 Jun 1998 |
Macroeconomic Effects of Pension Reforms in The Context of Ageing Populations
Using overlapping generations (OLG) models calibrated on seven OECD countries -- the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom and Sweden -- the authors investigate the macroeconomic impact of possible pension reform strategies... |
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No. 200 | 23 Jun 1998 |
The Macroeconomics of Ageing, Pensions and Savings
The effect of pension systems on public and private saving is important - savings are a crucial link between decisions today and living standards tomorrow. This paper, following a brief overview of pension systems in some OECD countries, reviews the... |
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No. 199 | 04 Jun 1998 |
Marginal Effective Tax Rates on Physical, Human and R&D Capital
This paper presents marginal effective tax rates (METRs) for a number of physical and intangible assets and for a number of funding sources. The assets include machinery, buildings, inventories, investments in short-lived R&D (that is, investments... |
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No. 198 | 26 May 1998 |
The Norwegian Health Care System
This paper examines the Norwegian health care system from an economic perspective. While acknowledging the excellent quality of services delivered by the Norwegian health care system, it identifies a number of problem areas, in particular: i) the... |
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No. 197 | 15 May 1998 |
APEC Trade Liberalisation
Over the past decade, globalisation has been a pervasive trend in almost all economies. The world economy is becoming increasingly interdependent, deepening and intensifying international linkages, most notably in trade. As trade expands among... |
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No. 196 | 15 May 1998 |
La stratégie de l'OCDE pour l'emploi
A mesure que le chômage structurel baisse dans un nombre croissant de pays, il est de plus en plus manifeste que la Stratégie de l’OCDE pour l’emploi, si elle est intégralement mise en oeuvre, représente une réponse efficace aux problèmes qui se... |
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No. 196 | 15 May 1998 |
The OECD Jobs Strategy
As more countries experience falling structural unemployment, the evidence is mounting that, implemented comprehensively, the OECD Jobs Strategy represents an effective response to countries’ labour market problems. That is the key conclusion to... |
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No. 195 | 23 Apr 1998 |
Trends in OECD Countries' International Competitiveness
The large exchange rate depreciations registered in a number of Asian countries since mid-1997 have raised the issue of whether this could lead to major shifts in the relative costs and prices of production across countries, and hence in the relative... |
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No. 194 | 24 Apr 1998 |
The European Union's Trade Policies and their Economic Effects
This paper retraces the Communities external liberalisation efforts, and discusses, where relevant, the repercussions of internal liberalisation on foreign competitors. The aim of the paper is to clarify, and when feasible, to quantify the economic... |
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No. 193 | 20 Mar 1998 |
The Macroeconomic Implications of Ageing in a Global Context
This study was prepared in the Economics Department as a contribution to the Organisation -wide study of the economic consequences of population ageing. It presents a number of long-term scenarios illustrating the likely domestic and international... |
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The Recent Experience with Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies
Sveinbjörn Blöndal and Hans Christiansen
18 Feb 1999
This paper summarises key points of the recent extensive discussion of the factors behind the volatility of cross-border capital flows in emerging market countries and possible corrective measures. The root cause of the recent volatility of capital...
Foreign Portfolio Investors Before and during a Crisis
Woochan Kim and Shang-Jin Wei
10 Feb 1999
Different categories of foreign portfolio investors in Korea have differences as well as similarities in their trading behavior before and during the currency crisis. First, non-resident institutional investors are always positive feedback traders,...
Towards More Efficient Government
Eckhard Wurzel
10 Feb 1999
In Germany fiscal relations between the various levels of government have come to the fore of the policy debate. In practice the federal fiscal set-up has evolved towards consensus and co-operation, where equalisation of living standards takes...
Stock Market Fluctuations and Consumption Behaviour
Laurence Boone, Claude Giorno and Pete Richardson
02 Dec 1998
This paper examines the likely influence of recent stock market fluctuations on major OECD economies, focusing on wealth effects and consumption. After reviewing the relevant theoretical framework and available empirical evidence, consumption...
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
Maarten Lindeboom
24 Jun 1998
It has been suggested that much of the dramatic decline in the participation rate of Dutch elderly has been caused by features of the Dutch retirement income support system. The Dutch system consists of several alternative schemes that can be used to...
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
Raffaele Miniaci and Elena Stancanelli
24 Jun 1998
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the retirement decision in the United Kingdom. We distinguish four retirement routes: retirement, unemployment, long-term sickness and other states. The focus of the paper is the impact of pension benefits...
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
Raffaele Miniaci
23 Jun 1998
This paper exploits an Italian microeconomic data set to study retirement behaviour of women and men using survival analysis techniques. After a brief introduction to the Italian pension system and to the Bank of Italy survey, different...
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
Pablo Antolín and Stefano Scarpetta
24 Jun 1998
This paper analyses the determinants of the retirement decision in Germany using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period 1985-1995. Non-parametric and semi-parametric techniques have been used to describe the exit to...
Microeconometric Analysis of the Retirement Decision
Joseph Quinn, Richard Burkhauser, Kevin Cahill and Robert Weathers
23 Jun 1998
Using three waves of the ongoing Health and Retirement Survey, we document the labour force withdrawal patterns of a sample of older Americans aged 55-61 and working in 1992. We note the importance of Social Security and employer pension benefits for...
The Retirement Decision in OECD Countries
Sveinbjörn Blöndal and Stefano Scarpetta
15 Feb 1999
This paper examines the main determinants of the decision to retire from the labour market in OECD countries, and in particular the role of social security systems in driving down the labour-force participation rate of older people in recent decades....
Macroeconomic Effects of Pension Reforms in The Context of Ageing Populations
Ketil Hviding and Marcel Mérette
23 Jun 1998
Using overlapping generations (OLG) models calibrated on seven OECD countries -- the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom and Sweden -- the authors investigate the macroeconomic impact of possible pension reform strategies...
The Macroeconomics of Ageing, Pensions and Savings
Richard Kohl and Paul O'Brien
23 Jun 1998
The effect of pension systems on public and private saving is important - savings are a crucial link between decisions today and living standards tomorrow. This paper, following a brief overview of pension systems in some OECD countries, reviews the...
Marginal Effective Tax Rates on Physical, Human and R&D Capital
Kathryn Gordon and Harry Tchilinguirian
04 Jun 1998
This paper presents marginal effective tax rates (METRs) for a number of physical and intangible assets and for a number of funding sources. The assets include machinery, buildings, inventories, investments in short-lived R&D (that is, investments...
The Norwegian Health Care System
Paul van den Noord, Terje Hagen and Tor Iversen
26 May 1998
This paper examines the Norwegian health care system from an economic perspective. While acknowledging the excellent quality of services delivered by the Norwegian health care system, it identifies a number of problem areas, in particular: i) the...
APEC Trade Liberalisation
Seunghee Han and Inkyo Cheong
15 May 1998
Over the past decade, globalisation has been a pervasive trend in almost all economies. The world economy is becoming increasingly interdependent, deepening and intensifying international linkages, most notably in trade. As trade expands among...
La stratégie de l'OCDE pour l'emploi
OECD
15 May 1998
A mesure que le chômage structurel baisse dans un nombre croissant de pays, il est de plus en plus manifeste que la Stratégie de l’OCDE pour l’emploi, si elle est intégralement mise en oeuvre, représente une réponse efficace aux problèmes qui se...
The OECD Jobs Strategy
OECD
15 May 1998
As more countries experience falling structural unemployment, the evidence is mounting that, implemented comprehensively, the OECD Jobs Strategy represents an effective response to countries’ labour market problems. That is the key conclusion to...
Trends in OECD Countries' International Competitiveness
Martine Durand, Christophe Madaschi and Flavia Terribile
23 Apr 1998
The large exchange rate depreciations registered in a number of Asian countries since mid-1997 have raised the issue of whether this could lead to major shifts in the relative costs and prices of production across countries, and hence in the relative...
The European Union's Trade Policies and their Economic Effects
Peter Hoeller, Nathalie Girouard and Alessandra Colecchia
24 Apr 1998
This paper retraces the Communities external liberalisation efforts, and discusses, where relevant, the repercussions of internal liberalisation on foreign competitors. The aim of the paper is to clarify, and when feasible, to quantify the economic...
The Macroeconomic Implications of Ageing in a Global Context
Dave Turner, Claude Giorno, Alain de Serres, Ann Vourc'h and Pete Richardson
20 Mar 1998
This study was prepared in the Economics Department as a contribution to the Organisation -wide study of the economic consequences of population ageing. It presents a number of long-term scenarios illustrating the likely domestic and international...