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Institutional Development : Skill Transference Through a Reversal of ""Human Capital Flight"" or Technical Assistance
International Monetary Fund - 1997
We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill-poor economy. Technical assistance relies mainly on expatriate skills and labor from the host country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a...
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Human Capital Flight : Impact of Migrationon Income and Growth
International Monetary Fund - 1994
This paper analyses the impact of government tax and subsidy policy on immigration of human capital and the effect of such immigration on growth and incomes. In the context of a two-country endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and human capital accumulation, we argue that human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395877
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Theoretical Aspects of Growth in Developing Countries : External Debt Dynamics and the Role of Human Capital
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper formulates a simple aggregate growth model that is capable of assessing the impact of macroeconomic policies on the long-term performance of a developing country. The model emphasizes expenditures on human capital and the dynamics of external debt, and yields empirically testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396208
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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France
International Monetary Fund - 1997
various tax rates lead to lower budget deficits in the long run, as a result of an expanding tax base and lower unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401626
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Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times : A Practitioner's Guide
International Monetary Fund - 2005
methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high-unemployment … wages, and thus, on the labor market and the real economy, were limited until 1998, but have been quite significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400692
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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 … market flows on wage formation as an alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations in which unemployment …
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
. Microeconometric estimations provide evidence of an outward shift in the relationship between wages and unemployment that is …The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The … independent of changes in labor demand taxes and unemployment income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407413
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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2012
This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital acquisition. We use the standard system GMM approach as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396933
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Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the Mams Model; An Application to Burkina Faso
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This paper analyses economic implications and the transmission mechanisms of different options for creating and using fiscal space. For creating fiscal space, we consider prioritizing expenditures, raising revenue, and scaled-up aid. Fiscal space is used for increasing health and education...
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Republic of Croatia; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper on Selected Issues was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on October 23, 2012. The views expressed in this...
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