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Argentina’s GDP per working age person in 2003 was about the same as it was twenty years earlier and around fifteen … step towards that understanding. To that effect, we examine Argentina’s recent growth experience, which includes two deep …
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assumption that labor markets are segmented. In this paper, we evaluate this premise with data from Argentina's permanent … Argentina's labor laws. We find that average wages are significantly higher in the formal sector than in the informal sector. We … in Argentina cannot be rejected. The paper also provides a list of facts with which a satisfactory theory of informality …
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Remarks at the Central Bank of Argentina, Buenos Aires, April 19, 2006 ; "My business contacts talk and act as if the …
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In this paper, we consider a government that executes a permanent open market sale. The government is forced to eventually use money creation to pay for the debt's expenses, choosing between changing either the money growth rate (the inflation-tax rate) or the reserve requirement ratio (the...
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This paper reviews various approaches to the measurement of core inflation that have been proposed in recent years. The objective is to determine whether the European Central Bank (ECB) should pay special attention to one or other of these measures in assessing inflation developments in the euro...
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In this paper I quantitatively address the role of trade barriers in explaining why prices of services relative to tradables are positively correlated with levels of development across countries. I argue that trade barriers play a crucial role in shaping the cross-country pattern of...
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