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Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment
Furceri, Davide; Bernal-Verdugo, Lorenzo E.; Guillaume, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...
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Unemployment and Labor Market Issues in Algeria
Furceri, Davide - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
may hamper employment creation. The results of the paper suggest that the relative low output-employment elasticities and …
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Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis
Furceri, Davide; Crivelli, Ernesto; Toujas-Bernate, Joël - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
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