Product market regulation and wage premia in Europe and North America: An empirical investigation 1 1CEPII and OECD Economics Department, respectively. The authors wish to thank Andrea Bassanini, Ekkehard Ernst, Jørgen Elmeskov, John Martin and participants to the 3rd ECB Labour Market Workshop on “How are wages determined in Europe” for their comments on previous versions of this paper. The views expressed in the paper are personal and do not engage the organisations to which the authors are affiliated.

2015 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Jean ◽  
Giuseppe Nicoletti
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Economics Department ◽  
Product Market Regulation ◽  
Wage Premia

The Quantification of Structural Reforms in OECD Countries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balázs Égert ◽  
Peter Gal
Keyword(s):  
Product Market ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Product Market Regulation ◽  
The Impact

This chapter describes and discusses a new supply-side framework that quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income in OECD countries. It presents the overall macroeconomic impacts of reforms by aggregating over the effects on physical capital, employment, and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as observed changes in policies, the chapter finds that product market regulation has the largest overall single policy impact five years after the reforms. But the combined impact of all labour market policies is considerably larger than that of product market regulation. The paper also shows that policy impacts can differ at different horizons. The overall long-term effects on GDP per capita of policies transiting through capital deepening can be considerably larger than the five- to ten-year impacts. By contrast, the long-term impact of policies coming only via the employment rate channel materializes at a shorter horizon.

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