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No. 1822 | 07 Oct 2024 |
Reviving productivity growth
This review takes stock of the large body of evidence on aggregate productivity growth, its structural drivers, and the role of a wide range of policies. It aims to synthesise evidence on how public policies can promote productivity through their... |
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No. 1821 | 20 Sept 2024 |
Doombot versus other machine-learning methods for evaluating recession risks in OECD countries
An extensive literature explains recession risks using a variety of financial and business cycle variables. The problem of selecting a parsimonious set of explanatory variables, which can differ between countries and prediction horizons, is naturally... |
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No. 1820 | 05 Sept 2024 |
Distributional impacts of energy transition pathways and climate change
This report reviews the literature on the distributional consequences of climate change and mitigation and transition pathways. The heterogeneous levels of exposure and vulnerability to climate change across countries, regions, households, and... |
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No. 1819 | 05 Sept 2024 |
Policy approaches to reduce inequalities while boosting productivity growth
Over the past decades, productivity growth and technology diffusion have slowed down, and business dynamism has declined in many advanced and emerging economies. Meanwhile, inequalities in economic outcomes, such as in income and wealth, and in... |
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No. 1818 | 09 Aug 2024 |
Digitalisation of financial services, access to finance and aggregate economic performance
The paper presents novel indicators to measure financial sector digitalisation that cover 21 OECD countries over the 1995-2018 period, showing a significant increase in digital penetration though at different speeds and intensities across countries.... |
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No. 1817 | 09 Aug 2024 |
Revamping competition in New Zealand
New Zealand’s productivity level remains markedly below the OECD frontier. Insufficient competition is an important contributor to this performance, as the relatively small number of competitors in New Zealand’s small market contributes to market... |
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No. 1816 | 09 Aug 2024 |
Ensuring the tide lifts all boats
The education policy framework and New Zealand’s autonomous school system have many strengths and centres of excellence. New Zealand has a deep pool of highly talented and motivated teaching professionals, but the system is performing below... |
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No. 1815 | 09 Aug 2024 |
A fight on two fronts
New Zealand, like other countries, needs to address climate change on two fronts simultaneously. Adapting to a hotter world while meeting its emissions reduction targets. New Zealand will need to become better prepared for more extreme weather that... |
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No. 1814 | 09 Aug 2024 |
Promoting better quality job creation for inclusive growth in Egypt
Egypt’s working age population is set to expand substantially, with a rising education level, making for growth opportunities. However, employment ratios have trended down, while informality has become increasingly prevalent, particularly penalising... |
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No. 1813 | 25 Jul 2024 |
Carbon prices, emissions and international trade in sectors at risk of carbon leakage
What is the effect of recent carbon price developments on domestic emissions and carbon leakage? This paper first develops a comprehensive plant-level carbon pricing dataset for key heavy industries at risk of carbon leakage, i.e. aluminium, cement... |
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No. 1812 | 25 Jul 2024 |
Decarbonising Romania’s economy
Romania’s clean energy transition needs to accelerate for the country to decarbonise its economy by mid-century. Following an impressive decline from the early 1990s, emissions of greenhouse gases have stopped falling in recent years. Fossil fuel... |
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No. 1811 | 25 Jul 2024 |
Addressing labour and skills shortages in a fast-changing economy
The Danish labour market is strong, but tensions have increased since the pandemic. The post-pandemic recovery boosted labour demand, but structural factors, such as late labour market entry by the young, changing skills requirements and obstacles to... |
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No. 1810 | 25 Jul 2024 |
Housing market challenges and policy options in Slovenia
Slovenia's current housing challenges are characterised by strong demand and inadequate supply, exacerbated by rising construction and financing costs. High ownership rates mask the affordability challenge for younger cohorts or those who want to... |
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No. 1809 | 25 Jul 2024 |
Raising investment to support growth in Latvia
Weak investment has weighed on the convergence process of Latvia towards higher living standards. Limited access to finance coupled with high informality, costly insolvency procedures, skilled labour shortages and weak competition have hampered... |
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No. 1808 | 16 Jul 2024 |
Improving Egypt’s business climate to revive private sector growth
Weak productivity in Egypt is rooted in deep-seated structural causes that impede market competition and prevent a more efficient resource allocation. This implies a number of challenges for economic policy to meet the objectives for long-term... |
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No. 1807 | 14 Jun 2024 |
Enhancing productivity and growth in an ageing society
The increase in human longevity is a major achievement, which brings individual well-being and strong contributions to society, but population ageing also generates challenges. This paper documents demographic trends in OECD countries, highlighting... |
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No. 1806 | 14 Jun 2024 |
Enhancing the efficiency, inclusiveness, and environmental sustainability of housing in the Slovak Republic
Housing affordability has deteriorated in the past decade. There is scope for eliminating barriers to expand housing supply by reforming land use policy and streamlining the administration of building permits. Measures can be taken to promote the... |
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No. 1805 | 06 Jun 2024 |
Safeguarding the sustainability of the Ukrainian pension system
Before the war, the Ukrainian Pay-As-You-Go pension system required large government transfers. Since then, large scale emigration and an increasing number of people eligible for pensions have further increased the need for government transfers and... |
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No. 1804 | 30 May 2024 |
Towards better social protection for more workers in Latin America
Informality is a long-standing structural challenge of Latin American labour markets, as almost half of people in the region live in a household that depends solely on informal employment. Informal workers are often insufficiently covered by social... |
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No. 1803 | 07 May 2024 |
Labour markets transitions in the greening economy
Climate change mitigation policies affect the allocation of workers on the labor market: jobs in high-polluting industries will contract, while jobs in the “green” sector will grow. A just transition in the labour market requires policies to improve... |
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Reviving productivity growth
Christophe André and Peter Gal
07 Oct 2024
This review takes stock of the large body of evidence on aggregate productivity growth, its structural drivers, and the role of a wide range of policies. It aims to synthesise evidence on how public policies can promote productivity through their...
Doombot versus other machine-learning methods for evaluating recession risks in OECD countries
Thomas Chalaux and Dave Turner
20 Sept 2024
An extensive literature explains recession risks using a variety of financial and business cycle variables. The problem of selecting a parsimonious set of explanatory variables, which can differ between countries and prediction horizons, is naturally...
Distributional impacts of energy transition pathways and climate change
Jule Hodok and Tomasz Kozluk
05 Sept 2024
This report reviews the literature on the distributional consequences of climate change and mitigation and transition pathways. The heterogeneous levels of exposure and vulnerability to climate change across countries, regions, households, and...
Policy approaches to reduce inequalities while boosting productivity growth
Emilia Soldani, Orsetta Causa, Maxime Nguyen and Tomasz Kozluk
05 Sept 2024
Over the past decades, productivity growth and technology diffusion have slowed down, and business dynamism has declined in many advanced and emerging economies. Meanwhile, inequalities in economic outcomes, such as in income and wealth, and in...
Digitalisation of financial services, access to finance and aggregate economic performance
Filippo Bontadini, Francesco Filippucci, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Alessandro Saia
09 Aug 2024
The paper presents novel indicators to measure financial sector digitalisation that cover 21 OECD countries over the 1995-2018 period, showing a significant increase in digital penetration though at different speeds and intensities across countries....
Revamping competition in New Zealand
Charles Dennery
09 Aug 2024
New Zealand’s productivity level remains markedly below the OECD frontier. Insufficient competition is an important contributor to this performance, as the relatively small number of competitors in New Zealand’s small market contributes to market...
Ensuring the tide lifts all boats
David Haugh, Axel Purwin and Paulo Santiago
09 Aug 2024
The education policy framework and New Zealand’s autonomous school system have many strengths and centres of excellence. New Zealand has a deep pool of highly talented and motivated teaching professionals, but the system is performing below...
A fight on two fronts
David Haugh
09 Aug 2024
New Zealand, like other countries, needs to address climate change on two fronts simultaneously. Adapting to a hotter world while meeting its emissions reduction targets. New Zealand will need to become better prepared for more extreme weather that...
Promoting better quality job creation for inclusive growth in Egypt
Yosuke Jin and Andrea-Rosalinde Hofer
09 Aug 2024
Egypt’s working age population is set to expand substantially, with a rising education level, making for growth opportunities. However, employment ratios have trended down, while informality has become increasingly prevalent, particularly penalising...
Carbon prices, emissions and international trade in sectors at risk of carbon leakage
Jonas Teusch, Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Tobias Kruse and Mauro Pisu
25 Jul 2024
What is the effect of recent carbon price developments on domestic emissions and carbon leakage? This paper first develops a comprehensive plant-level carbon pricing dataset for key heavy industries at risk of carbon leakage, i.e. aluminium, cement...
Decarbonising Romania’s economy
Ivana Capozza
25 Jul 2024
Romania’s clean energy transition needs to accelerate for the country to decarbonise its economy by mid-century. Following an impressive decline from the early 1990s, emissions of greenhouse gases have stopped falling in recent years. Fossil fuel...
Addressing labour and skills shortages in a fast-changing economy
Caroline Klein and Jonathan Smith
25 Jul 2024
The Danish labour market is strong, but tensions have increased since the pandemic. The post-pandemic recovery boosted labour demand, but structural factors, such as late labour market entry by the young, changing skills requirements and obstacles to...
Housing market challenges and policy options in Slovenia
Volker Ziemann
25 Jul 2024
Slovenia's current housing challenges are characterised by strong demand and inadequate supply, exacerbated by rising construction and financing costs. High ownership rates mask the affordability challenge for younger cohorts or those who want to...
Raising investment to support growth in Latvia
Enes Sunel and Robert Grundke
25 Jul 2024
Weak investment has weighed on the convergence process of Latvia towards higher living standards. Limited access to finance coupled with high informality, costly insolvency procedures, skilled labour shortages and weak competition have hampered...
Improving Egypt’s business climate to revive private sector growth
Ania Thiemann
16 Jul 2024
Weak productivity in Egypt is rooted in deep-seated structural causes that impede market competition and prevent a more efficient resource allocation. This implies a number of challenges for economic policy to meet the objectives for long-term...
Enhancing productivity and growth in an ageing society
Christophe André, Peter Gal and Matthias Schief
14 Jun 2024
The increase in human longevity is a major achievement, which brings individual well-being and strong contributions to society, but population ageing also generates challenges. This paper documents demographic trends in OECD countries, highlighting...
Enhancing the efficiency, inclusiveness, and environmental sustainability of housing in the Slovak Republic
Federica De Pace
14 Jun 2024
Housing affordability has deteriorated in the past decade. There is scope for eliminating barriers to expand housing supply by reforming land use policy and streamlining the administration of building permits. Measures can be taken to promote the...
Safeguarding the sustainability of the Ukrainian pension system
Jens-Christian Høj and Viktoriia Klimchuk
06 Jun 2024
Before the war, the Ukrainian Pay-As-You-Go pension system required large government transfers. Since then, large scale emigration and an increasing number of people eligible for pensions have further increased the need for government transfers and...
Towards better social protection for more workers in Latin America
Jens Matthias Arnold, Aida Caldera Sánchez, Paula Garda, Alberto González Pandiella and Sebastián Nieto Parra
30 May 2024
Informality is a long-standing structural challenge of Latin American labour markets, as almost half of people in the region live in a household that depends solely on informal employment. Informal workers are often insufficiently covered by social...
Labour markets transitions in the greening economy
Orsetta Causa, Emilia Soldani, Maxime Nguyen and Tomomi Tanaka
07 May 2024
Climate change mitigation policies affect the allocation of workers on the labor market: jobs in high-polluting industries will contract, while jobs in the “green” sector will grow. A just transition in the labour market requires policies to improve...