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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162925403321

Titolo

Republic of Estonia : : Selected Issues

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2017

ISBN

1-4755-6599-2

1-4755-6601-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs, tables

Collana

IMF Staff Country Reports

Disciplina

330.957085

Soggetti

Labor productivity - Estonia

Labor productivity

Finance: General

Labor

Macroeconomics

Industries: Manufacturing

Production and Operations Management

Macroeconomics: Production

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Production

Cost

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Capacity

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Human Capital

Skills

Occupational Choice

Labor Productivity

Labour

income economics

Finance

Manufacturing industries

Productivity

Total factor productivity

Industrial productivity



Economic theory

Competition

Estonia, Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This Selected Issues paper examines the impact of fast unit labor cost (ULC) growth in Estonia. ULCs in Estonia have now reached a level at which further unmitigated wage growth risks material damage to competitiveness and income convergence prospects with western Europe. This highlights the importance of making Estonia’s pro-productivity policies a success, but in the nearer term the onus is on mitigating excessive wage growth because in this area, Estonia, together with the other Baltics, distinguishes itself from the rest of central and eastern Europe. Tax policy can provide short-term relief.