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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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Bulgaria; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
natural level of rate of unemployment will rise and remain higher, and the full employment level is likely to decline. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245182
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Sri Lanka; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Selected Issues paper on Sri Lanka underlies the dynamics of growth and external competitiveness. The slowdown in the contribution of sectors that are labor intensive, together with faster growth in sectors that are capital intensive and have higher productivity levels, resulted in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245206
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Japan; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This paper describes determinants of Japan’s productivity growth, reform outputs, and speculation on future potential growth. It investigates the macroeconomic implications of alternative fiscal strategies; examines the issues surrounding the Bank of Japan’s understanding of price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245231
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Sweden; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
posits that with potential growth moderately weaker and the natural rate of unemployment to remain elevated, policies should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245387
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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores … the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of … increases in unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369453
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A Cointegration Model for Search Equilibrium Wage Formation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
market flows on wage formation as an alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations in which unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604781
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Nicaragua; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
The paper is an elaborated report on Nicaragua’s potential economic growth. The challenges and idiosyncratic shocks were immense but the policies of better education, labor contracts, and accomplishments in public investments paved the way for movement of the economy. The external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242676
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United States; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This Selected Issues paper focuses on U.S. potential growth in the aftermath of the crisis. It discusses recent productivity developments in the nonfarm business sector. The paper uses back-of-the envelope calculations to gauge the effect of diminished financial sector activity on GDP growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242896
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Republic of Latvia; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
unemployment still well above its natural level, the output gap is estimated to be negative in 2012, but is expected to narrow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243161