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No. 1657 | 16 Feb 2021 |
A simulation framework to project pension spending: The Czech pension system
This paper presents a simulation framework developed to assess the impact of ageing on the financial sustainability of the Czech pension system. It accompanies the publication OECD Reviews of Pension Systems: Czech Republic. The framework has two... |
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No. 1656 | 22 Feb 2021 |
The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage inequality: A symptom of low job mobility?
Differences in average wages across firms – which account for around one-half of overall wage inequality – are mainly explained by differences in firm wage premia (the part of wages that depends exclusively on characteristics of firms) rather than... |
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No. 1655 | 05 Feb 2021 |
Central Bank Digital Currencies and payments: A review of domestic and international implications
Recent technological developments linked to secure messaging and traceability present an opportunity to address certain challenges in international and domestic payment systems. From an international perspective, foreign exchange markets remain... |
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No. 1654 | 27 Jan 2021 |
Boosting SMEs’ internationalisation in Poland
The rapid internationalisation of the Polish economy has helped develop competitive export-led manufacturing and services sectors fostering robust growth and productivity performance. However, the benefits of this development have been unequal. Many... |
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No. 1653 | 21 Jan 2021 |
Promoting the diffusion of technology to boost productivity and well-being in Korea
Korea is a top player in emerging digital technologies, with an outstanding digital infrastructure and a dynamic ICT sector. The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the importance of digitalisation to contain the spread of the virus, by allowing quick... |
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No. 1652 | 21 Jan 2021 |
Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic
There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of... |
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No. 1651 | 22 Jan 2021 |
Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment of risks and policy responses
This paper investigates the likelihood of corporate insolvency and the potential implications of debt overhang of non-financial corporations induced by economic shock associated with the outbreak of COVID-19. Based on simple accounting models, it... |
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No. 1650 | 22 Dec 2020 |
Regional development in Lithuania: A tale of two economies
Regional differences in GDP per capita, productivity, employment and poverty in Lithuania are among the largest in the OECD, and they have increased over the last decade. This paper looks at potential reasons for persisting disparities and assesses... |
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No. 1649 | 22 Dec 2020 |
Reducing poverty and social disparities in Lithuania
Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across... |
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No. 1648 | 22 Dec 2020 |
Labour market institutions for an ageing labour force in Slovenia
Population ageing will lead to a smaller and older workforce. Looking forward, this means that growth will increasingly depend on ensuring the best use of Slovenian workers. This implies keeping older and experience workers longer in employment and... |
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No. 1647 | 22 Jan 2021 |
Liquidity shortfalls during the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment and policy responses
The paper investigates the financial vulnerability of non-financial firms during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic crisis. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which firms may run into a liquidity crisis following the COVID-19 outbreak and the... |
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No. 1646 | 22 Dec 2020 |
Enhancing the efficiency and equity of the tax system in Israel
Israel’s tax mix is reasonably growth- and employment-friendly. Nonetheless, tax reform is needed to foster an inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and help tackle Israel’s main economic and societal challenges of high poverty, including among... |
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No. 1645 | 22 Dec 2020 |
Reducing socio-economic differences between municipalities in Israel
Despite being one of the smallest countries in the OECD, Israel is marked by significant socio-economic disparities, which have a clear spatial dimension. Ethnic and religious groups with weak socio-economic outcomes are not benefitting from the... |
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No. 1644 | 18 Dec 2020 |
The decline in labour mobility in the United States: Insights from new administrative data
Job mobility is essential for a well-functioning market economy and for individual workers to boost their wages. This paper provides a re-assessment of job mobility in the United States during 2000-2018, based on a novel administrative data source... |
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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. 1642 | 18 Dec 2020 |
Making Thailand’s services sector more competitive through international trade
Services are an important part of global economic activity and of international trade. Nevertheless, compared to its very large tourism sector, the sector of high-end business services in Thailand remains small. As IT and information, and... |
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No. 1641 | 18 Dec 2020 |
Thailand’s education system and skills imbalances: Assessment and policy recommendations
In light of population ageing, globalisation, automation, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s labour market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the capacity of... |
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No. 1640 | 15 Dec 2020 |
Banks, debts and workers
Private debt owed to banks and other financial institutions has been at unprecedented high levels. This paper studies the role of these high levels of debt for workers, based on an assembled micro-dataset that harmonises household surveys from 29... |
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No. 1639 | 16 Dec 2020 |
Seizing the productive potential of digital change in Estonia
Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity... |
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No. 1638 | 16 Dec 2020 |
Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs: Firm-level evidence from Estonia
With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The... |
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A simulation framework to project pension spending: The Czech pension system
Falilou Fall and Paul Cahu
16 Feb 2021
This paper presents a simulation framework developed to assess the impact of ageing on the financial sustainability of the Czech pension system. It accompanies the publication OECD Reviews of Pension Systems: Czech Republic. The framework has two...
The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage inequality: A symptom of low job mobility?
Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Michael Koelle, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Alfred Garloff, Katharzyna Grabska, Ryo Kambayashi, Valerie Lankester, Balazs Stadler, Oskar Nordström Skans, Satu Nurmi, Balazs Murakozy, Richard Upward and Wouter Zwysen
22 Feb 2021
Differences in average wages across firms – which account for around one-half of overall wage inequality – are mainly explained by differences in firm wage premia (the part of wages that depends exclusively on characteristics of firms) rather than...
Central Bank Digital Currencies and payments: A review of domestic and international implications
Lilas Demmou and Quentin Sagot
05 Feb 2021
Recent technological developments linked to secure messaging and traceability present an opportunity to address certain challenges in international and domestic payment systems. From an international perspective, foreign exchange markets remain...
Boosting SMEs’ internationalisation in Poland
Antoine Goujard and Pierre Guérin
27 Jan 2021
The rapid internationalisation of the Polish economy has helped develop competitive export-led manufacturing and services sectors fostering robust growth and productivity performance. However, the benefits of this development have been unequal. Many...
Promoting the diffusion of technology to boost productivity and well-being in Korea
Mathilde Pak
21 Jan 2021
Korea is a top player in emerging digital technologies, with an outstanding digital infrastructure and a dynamic ICT sector. The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the importance of digitalisation to contain the spread of the virus, by allowing quick...
Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic
Urban Sila and Christine de la Maisonneuve
21 Jan 2021
There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of...
Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment of risks and policy responses
Lilas Demmou, Sara Calligaris, Guido Franco, Dennis Dlugosch, Müge Adalet McGowan and Sahra Sakha
22 Jan 2021
This paper investigates the likelihood of corporate insolvency and the potential implications of debt overhang of non-financial corporations induced by economic shock associated with the outbreak of COVID-19. Based on simple accounting models, it...
Regional development in Lithuania: A tale of two economies
Hansjörg Blöchliger and Roland Tusz
22 Dec 2020
Regional differences in GDP per capita, productivity, employment and poverty in Lithuania are among the largest in the OECD, and they have increased over the last decade. This paper looks at potential reasons for persisting disparities and assesses...
Reducing poverty and social disparities in Lithuania
Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou
22 Dec 2020
Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across...
Labour market institutions for an ageing labour force in Slovenia
Priscilla Fialho and Jens Høj
22 Dec 2020
Population ageing will lead to a smaller and older workforce. Looking forward, this means that growth will increasingly depend on ensuring the best use of Slovenian workers. This implies keeping older and experience workers longer in employment and...
Liquidity shortfalls during the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment and policy responses
Lilas Demmou, Guido Franco, Sara Calligaris and Dennis Dlugosch
22 Jan 2021
The paper investigates the financial vulnerability of non-financial firms during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic crisis. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which firms may run into a liquidity crisis following the COVID-19 outbreak and the...
Enhancing the efficiency and equity of the tax system in Israel
Oliver Röhn
22 Dec 2020
Israel’s tax mix is reasonably growth- and employment-friendly. Nonetheless, tax reform is needed to foster an inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and help tackle Israel’s main economic and societal challenges of high poverty, including among...
Reducing socio-economic differences between municipalities in Israel
Gabriel Machlica
22 Dec 2020
Despite being one of the smallest countries in the OECD, Israel is marked by significant socio-economic disparities, which have a clear spatial dimension. Ethnic and religious groups with weak socio-economic outcomes are not benefitting from the...
The decline in labour mobility in the United States: Insights from new administrative data
Damien Azzopardi, Fozan Fareed, Mikkel Hermansen, Patrick Lenain and Douglas Sutherland
18 Dec 2020
Job mobility is essential for a well-functioning market economy and for individual workers to boost their wages. This paper provides a re-assessment of job mobility in the United States during 2000-2018, based on a novel administrative data source...
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...
Making Thailand’s services sector more competitive through international trade
Kosuke Suzuki, Manasit Choomsai Na Ayudhaya and Patrick Lenain
18 Dec 2020
Services are an important part of global economic activity and of international trade. Nevertheless, compared to its very large tourism sector, the sector of high-end business services in Thailand remains small. As IT and information, and...
Thailand’s education system and skills imbalances: Assessment and policy recommendations
Marieke Vandeweyer, Ricardo Espinoza, Laura Reznikova, Miso Lee and Thanit Herabat
18 Dec 2020
In light of population ageing, globalisation, automation, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s labour market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the capacity of...
Banks, debts and workers
Oliver Denk and Priscilla Fialho
15 Dec 2020
Private debt owed to banks and other financial institutions has been at unprecedented high levels. This paper studies the role of these high levels of debt for workers, based on an assembled micro-dataset that harmonises household surveys from 29...
Seizing the productive potential of digital change in Estonia
Damien Azzopardi, Patrick Lenain, Margit Molnar, Natia Mosiashvili and Jon Pareliussen
16 Dec 2020
Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity...
Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs: Firm-level evidence from Estonia
Natia Mosiashvili and Jon Pareliussen
16 Dec 2020
With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The...