Pension reform, employment by age, and long-run growth

T Buyse, F Heylen, R Van de Kerckhove - Journal of Population …, 2013 - Springer
We study the effects of pension reform on hours worked by three active generations,
education of the young, the retirement decision of older workers, and aggregate growth in a …

Fiscal policy, institutions and growth: New insights

S Nawaz, MI Khawaja - The Singapore Economic Review, 2019 - World Scientific
The paper attempts to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on economic growth while
considering level of development and controlling for state of institutions. We extend the …

Pension reform in an OLG model with heterogeneous abilities

T Buyse, F Heylen… - Journal of Pension …, 2017 - cambridge.org
We study the effects of pension reform on hours worked, human capital, income and welfare
in an open economy populated by four overlapping generations: three active generations …

Fiscal policy and TFP in the OECD: measuring direct and indirect effects

G Everaert, F Heylen, R Schoonackers - Empirical Economics, 2015 - Springer
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect effects of fiscal policy on total factor productivity
(TFP) in a panel of OECD countries over the period 1970–2012. Our contribution is twofold …

Differences in hours worked in the OECD: institutions or fiscal policies?

T Berger, F Heylen - Journal of money, credit and banking, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We study the determinants of the level and the evolution of per capita hours worked in a
panel of OECD countries since the 1970s. Following Pesaran (2006), our empirical strategy …

How taxes and spending on education influence economic growth in Poland

M Konopczyński - Contemporary Economics, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth in Poland and four types
of taxes and human capital investment. We primarily rely on an exogenous growth model …

Employment by age, education, and economic growth: effects of fiscal policy composition in general equilibrium

F Heylen, R Van de Kerckhove - The BE Journal of Macroeconomics, 2013 - degruyter.com
We build and parameterize a general equilibrium OLG model that explains hours worked by
three active generations, education by the young, the retirement decision of older workers …

The impact of budget deficit, public debt and education expenditures on economic growth in Poland

M Konopczyński - Acta Oeconomica, 2021 - akjournals.com
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth in Poland and a few
metrics of fiscal policy: budget deficit relative to GDP, the structure of public debt, education …

Fiscal policy in the crisis: impact, sustainability, and long-term implications

PC Padoan - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
The global economic and financial crisis has sparked an unprecedentedly large,
generalized fiscal policy response in practically all major industrial and emerging …

Getting low educated and older people into work: The role of fiscal policy

F Heylen, R Van de Kerckhove - Journal of Policy Modeling, 2019 - Elsevier
Raising employment, in particular employment among older individuals and low educated
individuals, stands high on the agenda of policy makers in many OECD countries. Increased …