18-July-2018
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This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working-age households across the OECD over the last two decades, in a context where it has been declining in the vast majority of countries.
18-July-2018
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This paper presents country-specific effects of structural reforms. It discusses how sizeable and interesting country-specific effects can be identified in a panel setting by conditioning the impact of individual policies on their own level or on the stance of other policies and institutions.
11-July-2018
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The average standard of living of the Tunisians has been steadily increasing for several decades, while poverty and inequality have been greatly reduced by the implementation of many social programs.
4-July-2018
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Owing to past structural reforms, Costa Rica has enjoyed robust GDP growth and productivity levels are gradually converging towards the OECD average.
4-July-2018
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This paper summarises earlier OECD work aimed at quantifying the impact of structural reforms on economic outcomes.
29-June-2018
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In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty.
29-June-2018
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Poland’s catch up with other OECD country has been largely based on productivity growth resulting from restructuring towards more productive sectors and foreign technology absorption.
31-May-2018
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Thailand’s path from a low-income to an upper-middle-income country over recent decades is widely hailed as a development success story.
25-May-2018
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The combination of different working-age benefits, childcare costs and income taxation creates complexity, reduces work incentives and holds back employment.
23-February-2018
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This paper investigates if higher public spending in education and better teacher qualifications are related to student’s performance, using data from Saber 11, a national standardized test conducted by Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación.