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This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …
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We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …
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Wide-ranging structural reforms are underway in Italy, aimed at addressing key bottlenecks in the product and labor markets. Our analysis, based on the IMF‘s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF), attempts to quantify the potential gains to the economy from a comprehensive...
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The staff report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation concluded that a vibrant recovery marked Estonia’s first year in the euro area, albeit amid nascent tensions. The economy’s strong rebound has been grounded in a proven track record of prudent macroeconomic policies. Executive...
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This paper decomposes productivity growth across highly developed OECD countries in the period 1972-2000 into components attributable to domestic R&D output, a catchup effect, and international technology diffusion via imports of hi-tech products. Two alternative specifications of...
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largely blamed on public policies, which are sufficient in scope but improperly shaped. Employment in Poland 2008 concludes …
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The report ‘Employment in Poland 2009 – Entrepreneurship for Work’ is the fi fth edition of the Employment in Poland … economies. We examine the reaction of employment, unemployment and economic activity to economic fl uctuations, in order to find … employment in Poland between 1996 and 2007, followed by the comparison with highly developed countries, especially the EU15, and …
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dynamics of unemployment and employment trends in the examined countries and to what extent different fiscal and monetary … the relatively most significant decrease in employment and increase in unemployment levels in Europe, which came about in … probably moderately negative. One important conclusion of this part is that evolving employment and unemployment trends for …
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This edition of Employment in Poland is devoted to the analysis of the impact of the 2007-2009 global financial crisis …
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This Report is a third in the series Employment in Poland. Its subtitle, which reads Security on a flexible labour … Employment in Poland identifying key factors responsible for different evolutions of employment and unemployment in eight Central … foremost importance to unemployment and employment fluctuations in the region, nowadays countries vulnerability to typical …
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