1-June-2016
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Young Firms and Industry Dynamics in Belgium
This Federal Planning Bureau working paper reviews the empirical cross-country evidence, provides some additional analysis of the role of young firms in industry-level employment and productivity dynamics in Belgium and concludes with a discussion of the implications for economic policy.
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1-June-2016
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Un examen plus approfondi des pressions salariales au Canada
Staff Analytical Note 2016-6 - Bank of Canada This note provides a brief outline of the recent developments in wage measures in Canada and assesses whether wage growth is consistent with its fundamentals. The analysis indicates that wage pressures remain subdued and almost all measures show that wage growth has remained below its historical average since mid-2015.
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1-June-2016
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Digital Disruption: What do governments need to do?
This report explores the potential impacts and challenges of digital technology for markets and competition, workers and society, and the way governments operate. Particular emphasis is placed on the linkages between digital technologies and productivity growth.
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26-May-2016
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Improving Productivity and Inclusion at National and Sub-national Levels: How can Modern Public Sector Governance help?
This paper presents an exploratory overview of the different ways public sector governance can affect productivity in the context of inclusive growth. Three aspects are addressed: aligning vision, incentives and delivery mechanisms across the policy-making cycle; establishing sound regulatory, procurement and public investment practices; and by addressing coordination capacity and framework conditions.
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3-May-2016
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Analysis Of The Long Term Effects Of a Company Tax Cut
This paper examines the effect of a company tax cut using a static representative household computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. It finds that a company income tax cut can increase living standards, even after allowing for increases in other taxes or cutting government spending to recover lost revenue, by lowering the before tax cost of capital.
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12-April-2016
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Boosting competition on Israeli markets
Promoting competition to enhance productivity at the firm level and resulting income and growth improvement and a lower cost of living is an important economic and social challenge in Israel.
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1-April-2016
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How Fast Can China Grow? The Middle Kingdom’s Prospects to 2030
Staff Working Paper 2016-15 Given its size and importance for global commodity markets, the question of how fast the Chinese economy can grow over the medium term is an important one. This paper addresses this question by examining the evolution of the supply side of the Chinese economy over history and projecting how it will evolve over the next 15 years.
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1-April-2016
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April 2016 Annual Reassessment of Potential Output in Canada
Staff Analytical Note 2016-4 - Bank of Canada This note summarizes the Bank of Canada’s 2016 annual reassessment of potential output growth, which is projected to be 1.5 per cent over 2016–18 and 1.6 per cent in 2019–20
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1-April-2016
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PC Productivity Update 2016
A review of Australia's productivity performance for 2014-15.
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1-April-2016
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The role of production factor quality and technology diffusion in 20th century productivity growth
Using a 1890-2013 17-OECD country database, this Banque de France paper improves the measurement of TFP by taking into account production factor quality, i.e. the education level of the working-age population for labor and the age of equipment for the capital stock.