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No. 1039 | 27 Mar 2013 |
Youth Labour Market Performance in Spain and its Determinants
This paper provides both descriptive and empirical evidence about the main youth labour market problems in Spain. Using the experiences of other EU economies as a benchmark, we document the performance of Spain as regards a wide set of youth labour... |
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No. 1578 | 25 Oct 2019 |
Yours inclusively? Income mobility in Ireland, 10 years of tax record microdata
While policymakers are rightly concerned about evidence of rising income concentration at the top, it is often wrongly assumed that the same rich individuals stay rich. In reality, the membership of this group are in a state of constant flux. This... |
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No. 1110 | 17 Apr 2014 |
Would a Growth Slowdown in Emerging Markets Spill Over to High-income Countries?
Growth in emerging market economies (EMEs) is set to durably slow from the rates observed over 2010-12 as cyclical effects fade, potential growth declines and external financing conditions tighten. Large negative current account balances make some... |
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No. 1150 | 21 Jul 2014 |
Workplace Stress in the United States
Despite relative affluence, workplace stress is a prominent feature of the US labour market. To the extent that job stress causes poor health outcomes – either directly through increased blood pressure, fatigue, muscle pain, etc. or indirectly... |
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No. 1603 | 24 Mar 2020 |
Workforce composition, productivity and pay: the role of firms in wage inequality
In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity gaps between firms may have contributed to both developments. This paper uses a new harmonised cross-country linked employer-employee... |
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No. 1033 | 08 Mar 2013 |
Work Incentives and Universal Credit
Under the Universal Credit reform, the main means-tested benefits except the Council Tax Benefit will be pooled into one single benefit with one single taper rate. The reform will give people better incentives to work, reduce complexity and... |
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No. 944 | 09 Mar 2012 |
Work Incentives and Recent Reforms of the Tax and Benefit System in Hungary
Reducing the extent of inactivity and promoting labour supply is essential to foster labour market outcomes in Hungary in the medium term. Notwithstanding specific factors linked to education, the pension system or family and disability policies,... |
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No. 1144 | 15 Jul 2014 |
Women's Role in the Swiss Economy
Swiss women are now as well educated as their male counterparts. However, progress remains to be made in the job market where both the supply and price of female labour are below that of men. While the participation rate for women is high and rising,... |
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No. 560 | 11 Jun 2007 |
Why has Swedish Inflation been Persistently Low?
Average inflation in Sweden has been one of the lowest among European countries since the mid- 1990s. Three supply-side factors help to explain this phenomenon, all related in some sense to increased global integration. First, a shift towards imports... |
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No. 551 | 23 Apr 2007 |
Why has Core Inflation Remained so Muted in the Face of the Oil Shock?
To help policymakers form a judgment on inflation risks and the required monetary policy stance the OECD has developed an analytical framework based on a set of 'eclectic' Phillips curves estimated for the two largest OECD economies, the United... |
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No. 1014 | 14 Jan 2013 |
Why do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?
This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis 2009-10 with the help of an enterprise survey. The results of variance analysis show that the use of fixed-term or agency work... |
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No. 1643 | 18 Dec 2020 |
Why are some U.S. cities successful, while others are not? Empirical evidence from machine learning
The U.S. population has become increasingly concentrated in large metropolitan areas. However, there are striking differences in between the performances of big cities: some of them have been very successful and have been able to pull away from the... |
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No. 1526 | 19 Dec 2018 |
Who’s in your export market?
The rapid integration of emerging market economies (EMEs) into world trade over the past three decades has raised widespread concerns about the effects this is having on trade-exposed sectors in advanced OECD countries. An analysis of international... |
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No. 1561 | 11 Jul 2019 |
Who pays the price of folly? The business cycle and income and wealth mobility in Spain
Spain has experienced a dramatic business cycle, starting with a large construction based boom followed by a long recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data from the... |
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No. 1583 | 10 Dec 2019 |
Who patents, how much is real invention and how relevant? A snapshot of firms and their inventions based on the 2016 SIPO China Patent Survey
China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be explained... |
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No. 1274 | 14 Dec 2015 |
Who are the top 1% earners in Europe?
Top earners have become the subject of intense public and scholarly debate. This is the first paper that comprehensively documents the profiles of the 1% highest paid employees across 18 European countries. The data come from the largest harmonised... |
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No. 1499 | 03 Aug 2018 |
Who are the beneficiaries of the structural funds and the cohesion fund and how does the cohesion policy impact firm-level performance?
This paper exploits a new database that is unique in its scale and scope containing detailed information on over two million projects carried out by one million firms that benefited from the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social... |
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No. 1426 | 06 Nov 2017 |
Where to get the best bang for the buck in the United Kingdom?
The United Kingdom is preparing a modern industrial strategy to boost labour productivity across the whole country and to narrow regional gaps in living standards. This raises the question of the optimal allocation of scarce resources in meeting... |
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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. 227 | 12 Jan 2000 |
What the Yield Curves say About Inflation
The paper investigates the information content of yield curves regarding future inflation, using the example of the G-7 countries. The empirical results show substantial variation of results across countries, and a significant information content is... |
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Youth Labour Market Performance in Spain and its Determinants
Juan J. Dolado, Marcel Jansen, Florentino Felgueroso, Andrés Fuentes and Anita Wölfl
27 Mar 2013
This paper provides both descriptive and empirical evidence about the main youth labour market problems in Spain. Using the experiences of other EU economies as a benchmark, we document the performance of Spain as regards a wide set of youth labour...
Yours inclusively? Income mobility in Ireland, 10 years of tax record microdata
Seán Kennedy, David Haugh and Brian Stanley
25 Oct 2019
While policymakers are rightly concerned about evidence of rising income concentration at the top, it is often wrongly assumed that the same rich individuals stay rich. In reality, the membership of this group are in a state of constant flux. This...
Would a Growth Slowdown in Emerging Markets Spill Over to High-income Countries?
Patrice Ollivaud, Elena Rusticelli and Cyrille Schwellnus
17 Apr 2014
Growth in emerging market economies (EMEs) is set to durably slow from the rates observed over 2010-12 as cyclical effects fade, potential growth declines and external financing conditions tighten. Large negative current account balances make some...
Workplace Stress in the United States
Michael Darden
21 Jul 2014
Despite relative affluence, workplace stress is a prominent feature of the US labour market. To the extent that job stress causes poor health outcomes – either directly through increased blood pressure, fatigue, muscle pain, etc. or indirectly...
Workforce composition, productivity and pay: the role of firms in wage inequality
Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Balazs Stadler, Richard Upward, Wouter Zwysen, Katarzyna Grabska-Romagosa, Ryo Kambayashi, Timo Leidecker, Oskar Nordström Skans, Capucine Riom and Duncan Roth
24 Mar 2020
In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity gaps between firms may have contributed to both developments. This paper uses a new harmonised cross-country linked employer-employee...
Work Incentives and Universal Credit
Jon Pareliussen
08 Mar 2013
Under the Universal Credit reform, the main means-tested benefits except the Council Tax Benefit will be pooled into one single benefit with one single taper rate. The reform will give people better incentives to work, reduce complexity and...
Work Incentives and Recent Reforms of the Tax and Benefit System in Hungary
Tímea Ladányi and Rafal Kierzenkowski
09 Mar 2012
Reducing the extent of inactivity and promoting labour supply is essential to foster labour market outcomes in Hungary in the medium term. Notwithstanding specific factors linked to education, the pension system or family and disability policies,...
Women's Role in the Swiss Economy
Richard Dutu
15 Jul 2014
Swiss women are now as well educated as their male counterparts. However, progress remains to be made in the job market where both the supply and price of female labour are below that of men. While the participation rate for women is high and rising,...
Why has Swedish Inflation been Persistently Low?
Felix Hüfner
11 Jun 2007
Average inflation in Sweden has been one of the lowest among European countries since the mid- 1990s. Three supply-side factors help to explain this phenomenon, all related in some sense to increased global integration. First, a shift towards imports...
Why has Core Inflation Remained so Muted in the Face of the Oil Shock?
Paul van den Noord and Christophe André
23 Apr 2007
To help policymakers form a judgment on inflation risks and the required monetary policy stance the OECD has developed an analytical framework based on a set of 'eclectic' Phillips curves estimated for the two largest OECD economies, the United...
Why do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?
Larisa Smirnykh and Andreas Wörgötter
14 Jan 2013
This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis 2009-10 with the help of an enterprise survey. The results of variance analysis show that the use of fixed-term or agency work...
Why are some U.S. cities successful, while others are not? Empirical evidence from machine learning
Damien Azzopardi, Fozan Fareed, Patrick Lenain and Douglas Sutherland
18 Dec 2020
The U.S. population has become increasingly concentrated in large metropolitan areas. However, there are striking differences in between the performances of big cities: some of them have been very successful and have been able to pull away from the...
Who’s in your export market?
Sonia Araujo, Thomas Chalaux and David Haugh
19 Dec 2018
The rapid integration of emerging market economies (EMEs) into world trade over the past three decades has raised widespread concerns about the effects this is having on trade-exposed sectors in advanced OECD countries. An analysis of international...
Who pays the price of folly? The business cycle and income and wealth mobility in Spain
Clara Martinez-Toledano, David Law, David Haugh and Müge Adalet McGowan
11 Jul 2019
Spain has experienced a dramatic business cycle, starting with a large construction based boom followed by a long recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data from the...
Who patents, how much is real invention and how relevant? A snapshot of firms and their inventions based on the 2016 SIPO China Patent Survey
Margit Molnar and Hui Xu
10 Dec 2019
China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be explained...
Who are the top 1% earners in Europe?
Oliver Denk
14 Dec 2015
Top earners have become the subject of intense public and scholarly debate. This is the first paper that comprehensively documents the profiles of the 1% highest paid employees across 18 European countries. The data come from the largest harmonised...
Who are the beneficiaries of the structural funds and the cohesion fund and how does the cohesion policy impact firm-level performance?
Julia Bachtrögler and Christoph Hammer
03 Aug 2018
This paper exploits a new database that is unique in its scale and scope containing detailed information on over two million projects carried out by one million firms that benefited from the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social...
Where to get the best bang for the buck in the United Kingdom?
Rafał Kierzenkowski, Peter Gal and Gabor Fulop
06 Nov 2017
The United Kingdom is preparing a modern industrial strategy to boost labour productivity across the whole country and to narrow regional gaps in living standards. This raises the question of the optimal allocation of scarce resources in meeting...
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...
What the Yield Curves say About Inflation
Sebastian Schich
12 Jan 2000
The paper investigates the information content of yield curves regarding future inflation, using the example of the G-7 countries. The empirical results show substantial variation of results across countries, and a significant information content is...