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France: Selected Issues : Labor Market Developments and Wage Moderation in France in the 1990s
International Monetary Fund - 2001
distribution of wage and earnings growth has not been uniform across deciles. A breakdown in employment growth by wage deciles also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407413
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Dominica; Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
employment, and to achieve fiscal and broader economic stability and a dynamic, accountable, and effective public service to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591659
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Burkina Faso; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) prepared by the Burkinabè government forms the principal benchmark for all development actors, and reaffirms the urgency of attacking poverty from a structural perspective. It is the primary tool for coordination of all interventions and of public aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244817
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper focuses on Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The economic sectors have undergone significant restructuring. This restructuring has been concentrated on production capacities, quality and efficiency, thus contributing to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245536
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Bulgaria: Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245618
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Republic of Armenia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
governance. It reviews the employment issues and trends in the budget framework, and also analyzes the implementation, monitoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825381
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Ghana; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This is the third Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS). Both the budget and the GPRS propose to tackle issues including reduction in the domestic debt, reduction of inflation to single digits, increasing revenue mobilization, curtailing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242655
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Guinea; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The health of the population in Guinea is also one of the determinants of poverty, owing to its impact on the ability of the population to work with vigor. There are large disparities depending on the urban/rural residence and administrative region. In terms of the poverty level of households,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243553
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Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times; A Practitioner's Guide
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248228
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Equilibrium Wage Dispersion; An Example
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
Search models with posting and match-specific heterogeneity generate wage dispersion. Given K values for the match-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263884