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No. 1796 | 24 Apr 2024 |
Lost in the green transition? Measurement and stylized facts
Greening the economy entails jobs contracting in “high-polluting” economic activities and expanding in environment-friendly activities. Minimizing the corresponding transition costs is crucial to accelerate decarbonisation and reduce displacement... |
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No. 1795 | 24 Apr 2024 |
A new measurement approach for identifying high-polluting jobs across European countries
This paper develops a novel classification of high-polluting occupations for a large sample of European countries. Unlike previous efforts in the literature, the classification exploits country-level data on air polluting emission intensity by... |
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No. 1794 | 24 Apr 2024 |
Achieving the transition to net zero in Australia
Australia has committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and more recently outlined a more ambitious intermediate target for emission reductions by 2030. However, achieving these targets will be challenging given a historical... |
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No. 1793 | 24 Apr 2024 |
Fully realising the economic potential of women in Australia
Gender inequalities in Australia have steadily declined, but remain particularly visible in the labour market. Women in Australia have lower employment rates, hourly wages and hours worked than their male counterparts. Childbirth is particularly... |
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No. 1792 | 24 Apr 2024 |
Addressing demographic headwinds in Japan: A long-term perspective
Japan faces serious demographic headwinds. Under current fertility, employment and immigration rates, the population would fall by 45% by 2100 and employment by 52%. Given the challenges of a shrinking and ageing population, the government has... |
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No. 1791 | 08 Feb 2024 |
Making the grass greener
Despite the ambitious carbon reduction targets set by policy makers worldwide, current investments fall well short of the net-zero emissions scenario. This paper analyses the factors holding back corporate green investment, with a particular focus on... |
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No. 1790 | 31 Jan 2024 |
Scaling-up infrastructure investment to strengthen sustainable development in Brazil
Infrastructure investment has been low in Brazil over the last decades, leaving significant gaps in all infrastructure sectors. To close these gaps, public investment will need to increase and become more effective, while additional private resources... |
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No. 1789 | 31 Jan 2024 |
Independent fiscal institutions
The paper reviews the diverse experience of OECD countries in establishing and running independent fiscal institutions, offering insights that could be useful for Latin American countries seeking to set-up and strengthen those institutions in the... |
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No. 1788 | 21 Dec 2023 |
Employment dynamics across firms during COVID-19
This paper analyses employment dynamics across firms during the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of job retention schemes (JRS) in shaping these dynamics. It relies on a novel collection of high-frequency harmonised micro-aggregated statistics,... |
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No. 1787 | 21 Dec 2023 |
Addressing labour market challenges for sustainable and inclusive growth in Israel
High employment growth has sustained Israel’s high GDP growth in recent decades, but demographic change and labour market duality put future growth at risk. Policy action is required to stimulate employment and raise labour productivity, especially... |
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No. 1786 | 21 Dec 2023 |
Identifying and tracking climate change mitigation strategies
This paper identifies different types of climate change mitigation strategies countries adopted over the last two decades and assesses the policy synergies they might generate. The analysis exploits the rich policy repository of the OECD’s Climate... |
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No. 1785 | 21 Dec 2023 |
Do governments re-prioritise spending?
This study investigates the capacity of governments to reallocate spending across different functions of the government. It mobilises the COFOG dataset for the period 1996 - 2017, which allows comparing public spending mixes at detailed levels in... |
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No. 1784 | 12 Dec 2023 |
A better performing labour market for inclusive convergence in Croatia
Croatia’s labour market has made important progress over the past decade. Employment rates are rising, reducing the gap with OECD countries, and poverty has fallen. While important weaknesses remain, many dimensions of equity and working conditions... |
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No. 1783 | 12 Dec 2023 |
Improving the business environment to accelerate convergence in Croatia
Raising productivity growth is central to closing the gap with the incomes and well-being enjoyed in many OECD countries. Croatia has internationally competitive firms, and a dynamic economy with many young and potentially productive firms. However,... |
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No. 1782 | 12 Dec 2023 |
Labour market and education reforms are needed to create more and better jobs in Türkiye
The Turkish economy grew strongly over the past two decades and created many jobs. However, given its young and growing workforce, Türkiye needs to ramp up efforts to achieve high-quality formal job creation. A sizeable share of the workforce, mostly... |
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No. 1781 | 22 Dec 2023 |
Quantifying the effect of policies to promote educational performance on macroeconomic productivity
This paper evaluates the link between educational policies and i) student performance and ii) macroeconomic measures of productivity. The analysis has two stages. First, using the 2015 and 2018 PISA databases, it quantifies the relationship between... |
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No. 1780 | 12 Dec 2023 |
Doombot: a machine learning algorithm for predicting downturns in OECD countries
This paper describes an algorithm, “DoomBot”, which selects parsimonious models to predict downturns over different quarterly horizons covering the ensuing two years for 20 OECD countries. The models are country- and horizon-specific and are... |
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No. 1779 | 12 Dec 2023 |
The law of the strongest? Exploring the drivers of firm performance during the COVID-19 crisis
Using data on more than 150.000 non-financial companies operating in both manufacturing and services sectors around the world, we analyse the drivers of firm performance throughout the whole COVID cycle (until end 2021). We highlight three key... |
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No. 1778 | 05 Dec 2023 |
Climate policies and Sweden’s green industrial revolution
Sweden is among OECD best performers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, much thanks to a comprehensive policy framework and relatively efficient policies. There is nonetheless room to further improve consistency of targets and policies, notably... |
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No. 1777 | 20 Nov 2023 |
Accelerating the EU’s green transition
The EU’s ambitious Green Deal aims at achieving net zero emissions by 2050. The EU is starting from a relatively good position. It has successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade. But further efforts are needed to reach the net... |
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Lost in the green transition? Measurement and stylized facts
OECD, Orsetta Causa, Maxime Nguyen and Emilia Soldani
24 Apr 2024
Greening the economy entails jobs contracting in “high-polluting” economic activities and expanding in environment-friendly activities. Minimizing the corresponding transition costs is crucial to accelerate decarbonisation and reduce displacement...
A new measurement approach for identifying high-polluting jobs across European countries
OECD, Orsetta Causa, Maxime Nguyen and Emilia Soldani
24 Apr 2024
This paper develops a novel classification of high-polluting occupations for a large sample of European countries. Unlike previous efforts in the literature, the classification exploits country-level data on air polluting emission intensity by...
Achieving the transition to net zero in Australia
OECD and Alvaro Leandro
24 Apr 2024
Australia has committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and more recently outlined a more ambitious intermediate target for emission reductions by 2030. However, achieving these targets will be challenging given a historical...
Fully realising the economic potential of women in Australia
OECD and Ben Westmore
24 Apr 2024
Gender inequalities in Australia have steadily declined, but remain particularly visible in the labour market. Women in Australia have lower employment rates, hourly wages and hours worked than their male counterparts. Childbirth is particularly...
Addressing demographic headwinds in Japan: A long-term perspective
OECD and Randall S. Jones
24 Apr 2024
Japan faces serious demographic headwinds. Under current fertility, employment and immigration rates, the population would fall by 45% by 2100 and employment by 52%. Given the challenges of a shrinking and ageing population, the government has...
Making the grass greener
Hélia Costa, Lilas Demmou, Guido Franco and Stefan Lamp
08 Feb 2024
Despite the ambitious carbon reduction targets set by policy makers worldwide, current investments fall well short of the net-zero emissions scenario. This paper analyses the factors holding back corporate green investment, with a particular focus on...
Scaling-up infrastructure investment to strengthen sustainable development in Brazil
Falilou Fall, Priscilla Fialho and Tony Huang
31 Jan 2024
Infrastructure investment has been low in Brazil over the last decades, leaving significant gaps in all infrastructure sectors. To close these gaps, public investment will need to increase and become more effective, while additional private resources...
Independent fiscal institutions
Aida Caldera Sánchez, Paula Garda, Alberto González Pandiella, Alessandro Maravalle, Diego Rodriguez and Elena Vidal
31 Jan 2024
The paper reviews the diverse experience of OECD countries in establishing and running independent fiscal institutions, offering insights that could be useful for Latin American countries seeking to set-up and strengthen those institutions in the...
Employment dynamics across firms during COVID-19
Sara Calligaris, Gabriele Ciminelli, Hélia Costa, Chiara Criscuolo, Lilas Demmou, Isabelle Desnoyers-James, Guido Franco and Rudy Verlhac
21 Dec 2023
This paper analyses employment dynamics across firms during the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of job retention schemes (JRS) in shaping these dynamics. It relies on a novel collection of high-frequency harmonised micro-aggregated statistics,...
Addressing labour market challenges for sustainable and inclusive growth in Israel
Michael Koelle
21 Dec 2023
High employment growth has sustained Israel’s high GDP growth in recent decades, but demographic change and labour market duality put future growth at risk. Policy action is required to stimulate employment and raise labour productivity, especially...
Identifying and tracking climate change mitigation strategies
Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Tobias Kruse and Mauro Pisu
21 Dec 2023
This paper identifies different types of climate change mitigation strategies countries adopted over the last two decades and assesses the policy synergies they might generate. The analysis exploits the rich policy repository of the OECD’s Climate...
Do governments re-prioritise spending?
Sebastian Barnes, Boris Cournède and Julien Pascal
21 Dec 2023
This study investigates the capacity of governments to reallocate spending across different functions of the government. It mobilises the COFOG dataset for the period 1996 - 2017, which allows comparing public spending mixes at detailed levels in...
A better performing labour market for inclusive convergence in Croatia
Tim Bulman
12 Dec 2023
Croatia’s labour market has made important progress over the past decade. Employment rates are rising, reducing the gap with OECD countries, and poverty has fallen. While important weaknesses remain, many dimensions of equity and working conditions...
Improving the business environment to accelerate convergence in Croatia
Timo Leidecker and Tim Bulman
12 Dec 2023
Raising productivity growth is central to closing the gap with the incomes and well-being enjoyed in many OECD countries. Croatia has internationally competitive firms, and a dynamic economy with many young and potentially productive firms. However,...
Labour market and education reforms are needed to create more and better jobs in Türkiye
Dennis Dlugosch
12 Dec 2023
The Turkish economy grew strongly over the past two decades and created many jobs. However, given its young and growing workforce, Türkiye needs to ramp up efforts to achieve high-quality formal job creation. A sizeable share of the workforce, mostly...
Quantifying the effect of policies to promote educational performance on macroeconomic productivity
Balázs Égert, Christine de la Maisonneuve and David Turner
22 Dec 2023
This paper evaluates the link between educational policies and i) student performance and ii) macroeconomic measures of productivity. The analysis has two stages. First, using the 2015 and 2018 PISA databases, it quantifies the relationship between...
Doombot: a machine learning algorithm for predicting downturns in OECD countries
Thomas Chalaux and David Turner
12 Dec 2023
This paper describes an algorithm, “DoomBot”, which selects parsimonious models to predict downturns over different quarterly horizons covering the ensuing two years for 20 OECD countries. The models are country- and horizon-specific and are...
The law of the strongest? Exploring the drivers of firm performance during the COVID-19 crisis
Guido Franco, Mauricio Hitschfeld, Álvaro Pina and Damien Puy
12 Dec 2023
Using data on more than 150.000 non-financial companies operating in both manufacturing and services sectors around the world, we analyse the drivers of firm performance throughout the whole COVID cycle (until end 2021). We highlight three key...
Climate policies and Sweden’s green industrial revolution
Jon Pareliussen and Axel Purwin
05 Dec 2023
Sweden is among OECD best performers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, much thanks to a comprehensive policy framework and relatively efficient policies. There is nonetheless room to further improve consistency of targets and policies, notably...
Accelerating the EU’s green transition
Martin Borowiecki, Joaquín Calvo Giménez, Federico Giovannelli and Francesco Vanni
20 Nov 2023
The EU’s ambitious Green Deal aims at achieving net zero emissions by 2050. The EU is starting from a relatively good position. It has successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade. But further efforts are needed to reach the net...