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No. 1717 | 03 Jun 2022 |
Expanding access to finance to boost growth and reduce inequalities in Mexico
The access to formal financial services in Mexico is particularly low. Access is also significantly unequal across income levels, gender, between rural and urban areas and across regions. SMEs access to bank credit is low, hampering firms’ ability to... |
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No. 1716 | 19 May 2022 |
Reaping efficiency gains through product market reforms in China
The impressive emergence of China’s economy is set to lose some momentum as the country catches up with more advanced economies and its rapid ageing also weighs on it. However, China can still reap the “reform dividend”, especially with measures to... |
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No. 1715 | 19 May 2022 |
Filling in the gaps: Expanding social protection in Colombia
The pandemic has highlighted significant gaps in social protection, in particularamong informal workers. With around 60% of workers in informal jobs, many of those most in need of social protection are left behind. The government has attempted to... |
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No. 1714 | 12 Jul 2022 |
Fighting climate change: International attitudes toward climate policies
Using new surveys on more than 40 000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for... |
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No. 1713 | 03 May 2022 |
Changes in the geography housing demand after the onset of COVID-19: First results from large metropolitan areas in 13 OECD countries
The paper introduces a novel, granular house-price dataset sourced from a network of public and private data providers. It offers the first results of investigations into changes in the urban geography of housing markets following the COVID-19... |
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No. 1712 | 22 Apr 2022 |
The survival of Latvian products and firms in export markets
This paper investigates factors that contribute to the survival of export relationships at the firm and product levels using a large anonymised firm-level database for Latvia. It finds that some characteristics of exporting firms, such as a higher... |
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No. 1711 | 19 Apr 2022 |
Making Norway’s housing more affordable and sustainable
Norway, like a number of other countries, saw steep growth in house prices during the pandemic. This added to past years of strong price increases and has brought renewed concern for housing affordability. Tax advantages to buying homes inflate house... |
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No. 1710 | 19 Apr 2022 |
Getting on the job ladder: The policy drivers of hiring transitions
This paper delivers new evidence for European countries on the role of a wide range of policies for workers’ mobility in terms of hiring transitions into jobs, with an emphasis on differences across socio-economic groups. Labour market transitions... |
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No. 1709 | 08 Apr 2022 |
A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking education policies to productivity
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and... |
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No. 1708 | 08 Apr 2022 |
The effect of a carbon tax rise on Iceland’s economy
This paper studies the potential impact of higher carbon taxation - to reach the government’s emission targets by 2030 - on Iceland’s economy. The paper is divided into two parts. First, a DSGE modelling exercise suggests that the equivalent of an... |
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No. 1707 | 08 Apr 2022 |
Boosting productivity in New Zealand by unleashing digitalisation
This paper overviews structural reforms that promote the diffusion of digital technologies and investment in intangible capital that maximises the potential of these technologies in New Zealand. Effective use of digital technologies enables New... |
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No. 1706 | 06 Apr 2022 |
Helping the Austrian business sector to cope with new opportunities and challenges in Austria
The economic shock induced by the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating structural changes and is posing new challenges. Austria faces wider growth opportunities and new adjustment challenges related notably to two major structural transformations:... |
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No. 1705 | 04 Apr 2022 |
Towards net zero emissions in Denmark
Denmark has been a frontrunner in policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and now plans to cut emissions by 70% by 2030 from 1990 levels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Such ambition induces halving emissions from 2019 levels and... |
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No. 1704 | 04 Apr 2022 |
Understanding differences in vaccination uptake among OECD countries
Resolving stark differences between rich and poor countries in vaccine coverage against COVID is a global policy priority for 2022. However, even among OECD countries, there currently remain surprisingly large differences in vaccine coverage and this... |
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No. 1703 | 14 Mar 2022 |
Measuring environmental policy stringency in OECD countries
As countries implement stricter environmental policies, the need for tools to compare countries’ environmental policy stringency is becoming more pressing. The OECD Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) index has become a widely used tool for policy... |
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No. 1702 | 08 Mar 2022 |
Restoring the dynamism of Malaysia’s business sector
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Malaysia undertook a series of vigorous reforms, ranging from the improvement of regulatory framework to the digitalisation of the economy, with the aim of boosting productivity. While the protracted pandemic has... |
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No. 1701 | 22 Feb 2022 |
Tackling the challenges of population ageing in the Slovak Republic
Slovakia’s population is ageing rapidly, with the share of the working-age population expected to shrink by about a fifth in the next 30 years. Ageing-related costs are projected to increase much more strongly than in other EU countries and ageing... |
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No. 1700 | 15 Feb 2022 |
Determinants of labour market exit of older workers in the Slovak Republic
The Slovak population is set to age rapidly in the next decades, with significant impacts on economic growth and the sustainability of public finances. At the same time, the labour market exit age in Slovakia is among the lowest in the OECD. We use... |
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No. 1699 | 23 Dec 2021 |
The role of the Australian financial sector in supporting a sustainable and inclusive recovery
Australia’s financial sector entered the COVID-19 crisis in a strong position, enabling it to play a key role in cushioning the pandemic’s impact. Once the national economy reopens, policymakers will turn their focus to securing a robust, sustainable... |
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No. 1698 | 22 Dec 2021 |
Trade impacts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom
This paper assesses the medium term impact of the United Kingdom leaving the EU Single Market under the terms of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) reached at the end of 2020 using the OECD METRO CGE model. The analysis does not include... |
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Expanding access to finance to boost growth and reduce inequalities in Mexico
Alessandro Maravalle and Alberto González Pandiella
03 Jun 2022
The access to formal financial services in Mexico is particularly low. Access is also significantly unequal across income levels, gender, between rural and urban areas and across regions. SMEs access to bank credit is low, hampering firms’ ability to...
Reaping efficiency gains through product market reforms in China
Margit Molnar
19 May 2022
The impressive emergence of China’s economy is set to lose some momentum as the country catches up with more advanced economies and its rapid ageing also weighs on it. However, China can still reap the “reform dividend”, especially with measures to...
Filling in the gaps: Expanding social protection in Colombia
Paula Garda and Jens Matthias Arnold
19 May 2022
The pandemic has highlighted significant gaps in social protection, in particularamong informal workers. With around 60% of workers in informal jobs, many of those most in need of social protection are left behind. The government has attempted to...
Fighting climate change: International attitudes toward climate policies
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico and Stefanie Stantcheva
12 Jul 2022
Using new surveys on more than 40 000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for...
Changes in the geography housing demand after the onset of COVID-19: First results from large metropolitan areas in 13 OECD countries
Rudiger Ahrend, Manuel Bétin, Maria Paula Caldas, Boris Cournède, Marcos Diaz Ramirez, Pierre-Alain Pionnier, Daniel Sanchez-Serra, Paolo Veneri and Volker Ziemann
03 May 2022
The paper introduces a novel, granular house-price dataset sourced from a network of public and private data providers. It offers the first results of investigations into changes in the urban geography of housing markets following the COVID-19...
The survival of Latvian products and firms in export markets
Konstantins Benkovskis, Peter Jarrett, Zeev Krill, Olegs Tkacevs and Naomitsu Yashiro
22 Apr 2022
This paper investigates factors that contribute to the survival of export relationships at the firm and product levels using a large anonymised firm-level database for Latvia. It finds that some characteristics of exporting firms, such as a higher...
Making Norway’s housing more affordable and sustainable
Ben Conigrave and Philip Hemmings
19 Apr 2022
Norway, like a number of other countries, saw steep growth in house prices during the pandemic. This added to past years of strong price increases and has brought renewed concern for housing affordability. Tax advantages to buying homes inflate house...
Getting on the job ladder: The policy drivers of hiring transitions
Orsetta Causa, Michael Abendschein, Nhung Luu and Maria Chiara Cavalleri
19 Apr 2022
This paper delivers new evidence for European countries on the role of a wide range of policies for workers’ mobility in terms of hiring transitions into jobs, with an emphasis on differences across socio-economic groups. Labour market transitions...
A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking education policies to productivity
Balázs Égert, Christine de la Maisonneuve and David Turner
08 Apr 2022
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and...
The effect of a carbon tax rise on Iceland’s economy
Hansjörg Blöchliger, Sigurdur Johannesson and Marias Halldor Gestsson
08 Apr 2022
This paper studies the potential impact of higher carbon taxation - to reach the government’s emission targets by 2030 - on Iceland’s economy. The paper is divided into two parts. First, a DSGE modelling exercise suggests that the equivalent of an...
Boosting productivity in New Zealand by unleashing digitalisation
Naomitsu Yashiro, David Carey and Axel Purwin
08 Apr 2022
This paper overviews structural reforms that promote the diffusion of digital technologies and investment in intangible capital that maximises the potential of these technologies in New Zealand. Effective use of digital technologies enables New...
Helping the Austrian business sector to cope with new opportunities and challenges in Austria
Dennis Dlugosch, Michael Abendschein and Eun Jung Kim
06 Apr 2022
The economic shock induced by the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating structural changes and is posing new challenges. Austria faces wider growth opportunities and new adjustment challenges related notably to two major structural transformations:...
Towards net zero emissions in Denmark
Andrew Barker, Hélène Blake, Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo and Patrick Lenain
04 Apr 2022
Denmark has been a frontrunner in policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and now plans to cut emissions by 70% by 2030 from 1990 levels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Such ambition induces halving emissions from 2019 levels and...
Understanding differences in vaccination uptake among OECD countries
David Turner, Nicolas Woloszko, Thomas Chalaux and Marnix Dek
04 Apr 2022
Resolving stark differences between rich and poor countries in vaccine coverage against COVID is a global policy priority for 2022. However, even among OECD countries, there currently remain surprisingly large differences in vaccine coverage and this...
Measuring environmental policy stringency in OECD countries
Tobias Kruse, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Rudy Saffar and Leo Robert
14 Mar 2022
As countries implement stricter environmental policies, the need for tools to compare countries’ environmental policy stringency is becoming more pressing. The OECD Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) index has become a widely used tool for policy...
Restoring the dynamism of Malaysia’s business sector
Kosuke Suzuki, Zahid Ismail, Wan Fazlin Nadia Wan Osman, Sugumar Saminathan, Mohamad Norjayadi Tamam, Zafrulla Hussein, Suriati Zainal Abidin, Halimahton Sa'diah Let, Mohamad Muzaffar Abdul Hamid, Nurrul Nur Aisyah Hamran, Suhaimi Hamad, Peter Gal, Francesco Losma, Laurence Todd, Eva Tène and Patrick Lenain
08 Mar 2022
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Malaysia undertook a series of vigorous reforms, ranging from the improvement of regulatory framework to the digitalisation of the economy, with the aim of boosting productivity. While the protracted pandemic has...
Tackling the challenges of population ageing in the Slovak Republic
Hyunjeong Hwang and Oliver Roehn
22 Feb 2022
Slovakia’s population is ageing rapidly, with the share of the working-age population expected to shrink by about a fifth in the next 30 years. Ageing-related costs are projected to increase much more strongly than in other EU countries and ageing...
Determinants of labour market exit of older workers in the Slovak Republic
Jakub Fodor, Oliver Roehn and Hyunjeong Hwang
15 Feb 2022
The Slovak population is set to age rapidly in the next decades, with significant impacts on economic growth and the sustainability of public finances. At the same time, the labour market exit age in Slovakia is among the lowest in the OECD. We use...
The role of the Australian financial sector in supporting a sustainable and inclusive recovery
Christine Lewis and Ben Westmore
23 Dec 2021
Australia’s financial sector entered the COVID-19 crisis in a strong position, enabling it to play a key role in cushioning the pandemic’s impact. Once the national economy reopens, policymakers will turn their focus to securing a robust, sustainable...
Trade impacts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom
Frank van Tongeren, Christine Arriola, Annabelle Mourougane and Sebastian Benz
22 Dec 2021
This paper assesses the medium term impact of the United Kingdom leaving the EU Single Market under the terms of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) reached at the end of 2020 using the OECD METRO CGE model. The analysis does not include...