Israel: Selected Issues

September 16, 2015

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Israel: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines labor productivity in Israel. Israel’s GDP per capita is low relative to the United States despite high labor input, as labor productivity is low. Catch-up of labor productivity to the United States stopped in the 1980s and relative labor productivity has since declined. Low labor productivity is the result of a low capital-to-labor ratio—kept low by high employment growth—and low total factor productivity growth. The latter may reflect lack of competition and product market restrictions, which are among the highest in advanced economies. Boosting competition, lowering product-market restrictions, and improving the quality of education and infrastructure would help boost productivity.

Subject: Housing, Housing prices, Income, Inflation, Labor productivity, National accounts, Prices, Production

Keywords: CR, Global, Goods export boom, Growth equation, Housing, Housing prices, Income, Income inequality, Income of woman, Inequality in Israel, Inflation, ISCR, Israel, Labor productivity, Pay, Price, Price boom, Product market, Productivity, Productivity growth, Wage income, Western Europe

Publication Details

Pages:

69
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2015/262
Stock No:

1ISREA2015002
ISBN:

9781513594675
ISSN:

1934-7685

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