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Japan 2011 Article IV consultation : 2011 selected issues

Berkmen, Pelin; Lam, W. Raphael; Steinberg, Chad Bennett; … - 2011

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The Baltics and Bulgaria : Labor Markets in Hard-Peg Accession Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2001

The paper examines labor market developments in the four hard-peg European Union (EU) accession candidates during transition, with a view toward understanding the persistent high unemployment experienced in each country. Despite the significant levels of unemployment in all four countries, labor...

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Belgium : Selected Issues—Regional Labor Markets in Belgium

International Monetary Fund - 2002

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the regional labor markets for Belgium. The paper examines labor market performance, and argues that a number of factors—poor worker-job matching, a compressed wage structure, and low geographical mobility—contribute to economic disparities. The paper...

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

International Monetary Fund - 1997

This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...

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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) : Labor Market Reforms to Boost Employment and Productivity in the GCC

International Monetary Fund - 2013

The GCC growth model has delivered substantial improvements in living standards over several decades. Access to foreign labor has supported rapid growth in the non-oil sector and price stability in the region. It has also resulted in positive spillovers to the migrant-sending countries through...

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

International Monetary Fund - 2004

Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such intervention often results in wage compression and restrictions on how firms use their workers. This paper investigates the impact of such interventions on the labor market conditions...

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Peru Detailed Assessment of Observance : Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision

International Monetary Fund - 2018

The costs of meeting the SDG WASH targets will be several times higher than investment levels during the MDG era (2000-15). The immense scale of the financing gap calls for innovative solutions. In addition to mobilizing more funding another approach is to deliver the needed infrastructure more...

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Peru: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This Selected Issues paper examines application of fiscal framework alternatives to the case of Peru. Although growth … has been at historical highs over the last decade, Peru still has an important infrastructure gap and a quarter of its … case of Peru. It takes stock of analytical considerations to resource management, and analyzes Peruâ€™s natural resource …

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Peru: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that Peruâ€™s economy continues to be a leader in high growth and low inflation in the region, which has been achieved through a prudent macroeconomic policy implementation, a far-reaching structural reform agenda and taking advantage of the...

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