Employment and Productivity: Disentangling Employment Structure and Qualification Effects

Abstract

Based on a disaggregation of the workforce into three qualification or educational attainment categories, the article estimates the effects on hourly productivity from changes in the employment rate structure and from changes in the qualification structure. 21 OECD countries are then ranked in terms of the potential gains in GDP they could expect from moving to the educational attainment rates and employment rates of the best performing countries.

Keywords

• workforce
• productivity
• employment
• gdp
• oecd