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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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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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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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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 market developments suggest that the strongest and earliest …
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for them, including an analysis of variations in the relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional vacancy …
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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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Belgium has effected a remarkable fiscal adjustment, best illustrated by the decline in its public debt. While benefiting from an appreciable decline in interest rates, most of the underlying consolidation reflected a considerable increase in the tax burden, one of the highest in the...
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Poverty and unemployment remained high in Botswana. The shortcomings of the labor market policies are responsible for a … high unemployment rate. This selected issues paper sheds considerable light on ways that Botswana can enhance inclusive … growth and reduce the high level of structural unemployment. Botswana was identified as having been able to sustain the …
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The methodology used in this paper has three distinguishing features: the natural rate of unemployment and potential …
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