Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 11
Cover Image
Labor Market Pooling
Blasio, Guido De; Addario, Sabrina Di - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
the likelihood of transiting from wage-and-salary to self-employment. Finally, there is no evidence of higher district …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825772
Cover Image
Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826565
Cover Image
Wage Moderation in France
Estevão, Marcello M.; Nargis, Nigar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768837
Cover Image
Economic Growth in Croatia; Potential and Constraints
Moore, David; Vamvakidis, Athanasios - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper examines the factors and constraints that affect recent and potential growth in Croatia, as well as policies … that can influence it. On current productivity trends, it estimates Croatia's potential growth rate at 4-4½ percent, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599301
Cover Image
Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Estevão, Marcello M.; Sa, Filipa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
increased in large firms. Employment of persons directly affected by the law declined, although the net effect on aggregate … employment was not significant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599717
Cover Image
Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment … variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604960
Cover Image
Product Market Regulation and the Benefits of Wage Moderation
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
output and employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605144
Cover Image
Has the Great Recession Raised U.S. Structural Unemployment?
Estevão, Marcello M.; Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The recent crisis has had differential effects across U.S. states and industries causing a wide geographic dispersion in skill mismatches and housing market performance. We document these facts and, using data from the 50 states plus D.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019607
Cover Image
Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility; Evidence From Brazil
Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Even though institutions are created to protect workers, they may interfere with labor market functioning, raise unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the institutional changes introduced by the 1988...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242295
Cover Image
Productivity or Employment; Is It a Choice?
Michelis, Andrea De; Estevão, Marcello M.; Wilson, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242298