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The Welfare Effects of Public Expenditure Programs Reconsidered
International Monetary Fund - 1989
programs whose aim is to eliminate market constraints predominate those that can be achieved through interpersonal income …
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Republic of Estonia; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This paper assesses Estonia’s flexibility from two angles. The paper focuses on one aspect of that performance—the ability to sustain competitiveness. Then, a more forward-looking angle is the flexibility of Estonia’s labor and product markets. Estonia has made great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244007
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Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs?
International Monetary Fund - 1997
developing countries been responsible for thelowered wages of the unskilled, increased unemployment, and widenedincome inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058164
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A Cointegration Model for Search Equilibrium Wage Formation
International Monetary Fund - 2004
In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401436
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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 …. Microeconometric estimations provide evidence of an outward shift in the relationship between wages and unemployment that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407413
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Employment and Wages in the Public Sector : A Cross-Country Study
International Monetary Fund - 1995
We study the determinants of employment and wages in the public sector, using a new set of panel data for 34 LDCs and … countries and private employment for OECD countries). Certain measures of government wages are positively associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398143
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United Arab Emirates; Financial System Stability Assessment
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Financial System Stability Assessment on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) examines macroeconomic and financial sector developments. The banking sector as a whole shows comfortable levels of capitalization and profits, having benefited from the rapid expansion of the economy and a steady...
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Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Sector Stability
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824821
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Spillovers Through Banking Centers; A Panel Data Analysis
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000
To test the role of bank lending in transmitting currency crisis we examine a panel of BIS data on bank flows to 30 emerging markets disaggregated by 11 banking centers. We find that bank exposures to a crisis country help predict bank flows in third countries after the Mexican and Asian crisis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599548
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Malaysia; Financial Sector Stability Assessment
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This assessment is a review of the financial environment of Malaysia. Like many other Asian countries, Malaysia experienced financial distress in the late 1990s, but the country’s policy reforms have moved it to a successful economy. A ten-year financial plan (2001–10) by Bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242711