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A Systems Approach to Estimating the Natural Rate of Unemployment and Potential Output for the United States

International Monetary Fund - 1989

The methodology used in this paper has three distinguishing features: the natural rate of unemployment and potential …

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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France

International Monetary Fund - 1997

various tax rates lead to lower budget deficits in the long run, as a result of an expanding tax base and lower unemployment …

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Wage Compression, Employment Restrictions and Unemployment : The Case of Mauritius

International Monetary Fund - 2004

relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the … extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different …

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Structural Determinants of the Natural Rate of Unemployment in Canada

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper presents empirical estimates of the policy and structural determinants of the natural rate of unemployment … real wages to their equilibrium level. Estimates are presented showing how the generosity of the unemployment insurance … system is related to past levels of unemployment. The empirical results indicate that government policies have been largely …

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Unemployment Hysteresis, Wage Determination, and Labor Market Flexibility : The Case of Belgium

International Monetary Fund - 1994

This paper examines the potential contribution of unemployment hysteresis theories to the understanding of the Belgian …

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Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times : A Practitioner's Guide

International Monetary Fund - 2005

methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high-unemployment …

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Trends and Cycles in the U.S. Economy

International Monetary Fund - 1990

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

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Terms of Trade Disturbances, Real Exchange Rates, and Welfare : The Role of Capital Controls and Labor Market Distortions

International Monetary Fund - 1989

Many arguments that have been advanced in favor of maintaining capital controls within the EC have not paid sufficient attention to the welfare consequences of this type of market intervention. Our paper provides a simple, optimizing framework in which the welfare consequences of capital...

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Fiscal Policy, Labor Markets and the Poor

International Monetary Fund - 1990

In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...

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Integrating Europe's financial markets

Decressin, Jörg (contributor); Faruqee, Hamid (contributor) - 2007

By and large, EU financial integration has been a success story. Still, the reform agenda is far from finished. What are the remaining challenges going forward? What are the gains of closer financial market integration? This IMF book tracks the European Union's journey along the path to a single...

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