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The Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) provides the framework for Dominica’s economic and social policies over the next five years and sets out the macroeconomic framework; the growth strategy, including the enabling environment for private enterprise and sectoral strategies;...
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This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China's exportoriented growth model toward … employment and employment opportunities in the longer term, there could be employment losses in the short run as the economy … policies to cushion the employment impact in the transition, particularly in meeting the skills gap of associated with this …
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This paper reviews several methods to measure wage flexibility, and their suitability for evaluating the extent of such … flexibility during times of structural change, when wage distributions and wage curves can be particularly volatile. The paper … uses nonparametric estimation to capture possible nonlinearities in the wage curve and relaxes the assumption of a stable …
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Search models with posting and match-specific heterogeneity generate wage dispersion. Given K values for the match … = 3, we show equilibrium is unique; may have one wage or two; and when there are two, the equilibrium can display any …
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This Selected Issues paper for euro area policies analyzes the product market regulation and benefits of wage …
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negotiations, the degree of unionization and the system of tripartism, the wage setting mechanism, and labor market programs. The … paper makes an assessment of the flexibility and efficiency of the Cypriot labor market, and in particular, the wage …
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market flows on wage formation as an alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations in which unemployment … represents Phillipscurve or wage-curve effects. The paper estimates a dynamic wage equation for the Netherlands using a … both short-run and long-run wage setting. …
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243020
A major element of the persistent fiscal imbalances in Guinea-Bissau is the relatively low level of revenue compared with other sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Fiscal revenues, including grants, trended downward significantly in Guinea-Bissau from 1991 through 2005, especially during the...
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