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Selected Euro-Area Countries : The Determinants of Growth: The Experience in the Southern European Economies of Greece and Portugal

International Monetary Fund - 2002

This paper reviews the recent growth experience of the Greek and Portuguese economies and their determinants, comparing it with the rest of the euro area as well as a large set of other economies. Estimates from fixed effects panel and cross-section regressions are used to estimate how changes...

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Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust : 2017 Borrowing Agreements with the Bank of Spain, the Government of Japan and the People's Bank of China

International Monetary Fund - 2017

Spain (Spain), amendments to the 2010 NPA with the Government of Japan (Japan), and a new note purchase agreement (NPA) with … the People's Bank of China (China). The new borrowing agreement with Spain, the amendments to the NPA with Japan, and the … February 22, 2017, for Spain; April 20, 2017, for Japan; and April 21, 2017, for China. Pursuant to Section III, paragraph 2 of …

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Industrial Relations and Macroeconomic Performance : An Application to Spain

International Monetary Fund - 1990

characterizing Spain in the period 1979-86. The paper argues, in accordance with the literature and the cross-country evidence, that … the centralization of bargaining yielded positive macroeconomic effects in Spain, and thus that the shift toward a more …

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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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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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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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France: Selected Issues : Labor Market Developments and Wage Moderation in France in the 1990s

International Monetary Fund - 2001

The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The distribution of wage and earnings growth has not been uniform across deciles. A breakdown in employment growth by wage deciles also suggests important composition changes. The...

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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,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396380

EMU and the international monetary system : proceedings of a conference held in Washington DC on March 17-18, 1997, cosponsored by the Fondation Camille Gutt and the IMF

Masson, Paul R. (ed.); Krueger, Thomas H. (contributor); … - International Monetary Fund - 1997

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