Proceedings from the ECFIN Workshop "The budgetary implications of structural reforms" - Brussels, 2 December 2005



Figure 9. Change in primary fiscal positions and intensity of labour market reforms


Panel A. Ranks of changes in primary fiscal positions1 over 1993-1997 and reform intensities over 1994-2004: OECD


Ranks of reform intensity over 1994-2004
30
28
26
24
22
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0

0      2      4      6      8      10     12     14     16     18     20     22     24     26     28     30

Ranks of changes in primary fiscal balance between 1993 and 1997


CZE


ESP


♦ USA


♦ GRC


FRA


ISL


KOR


SVK


CHE


JPN


POL


♦ NZL


♦ LUX


CAN «


♦ NOR


GBR


PRT


• SWE


♦ AUS


♦ AUT


♦ IRE


ITA


♦ BEL


DEU
FIN


♦ NLD


DNK


(Spearman's rank) correlation coefficient: -0.01


Panel B. Ranks of changes in primary fiscal positions1 over 1993-1997 and reform intensities over 1994-2004: EU-15

(Spearman's rank) correlation coefficient: -0.61 **


1. Rankings of changes in cyclically-adjusted primary fiscal surpluses between 1993 and 1997 (1995-1997 for Czech
Republic and Poland, 1994-1997 for Slovak Republic).

* significant at 10% level; ** significant at 5% level.

Source: Author's calculations.


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