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Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment …
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Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Estevão, Marcello M.; Sa, Filipa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals' choice or a tool to coordinate individuals' preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses by studying the consequences of the workweek reduction in France from 39 to 35 hours, which was...
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Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …
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Product Market Regulation and the Benefits of Wage Moderation
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
unemployment or faster growth. Weak output growth after such a cost shock is somewhat puzzling and has led some to question the … structurally slower real wage growth, that is, "wage moderation," does raise output growth and lower unemployment rates. However, I …
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