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Universal Health Care 101; Lessons for the Eastern Caribbean and Beyond
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
Despite the increasing interest in universal health care, little is known about the optimal way to finance, design, and implement it. This paper attempts to fill this gap by providing some general policy recommendations on this important issue. While most of the paper addresses the Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825841
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Why Are Women Working so Much More in Canada? An International Perspective
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826383
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Has the Great Recession Raised U.S. Structural Unemployment?
Estevão, Marcello M.; Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that supports that changes in state-level unemployment rates are linked … causality going from mismatches and housing conditions to unemployment rates. The numerical estimates imply that the structural … unemployment rate in 2010 was about 1¾ percentage points higher than before the onset of the housing market meltdown at end-2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019607
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Canada's Potential Growth; Another Victim of the Crisis?
Estevão, Marcello M.; Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
-term unemployment rate (which would raise equilibrium unemployment rates). However, over the medium term, we expect Canada's potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561074