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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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Informal Labour and Credit Markets: A Survey
Levine, Paul; Lotti, Emanuela; Batini, Nicoletta; Kim, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modeling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. We concentrate on labour and credit markets, since these tend to be most affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519512
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Reforming Labor and Product Markets; Some Lessons From Two Decades of Experiments in Europe
Boeri, Tito - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper evaluates European structural reforms over the last 20 years, in light of economic theory predictions about interactions between labor and product market reforms. Reforms in labor markets occur at higher frequencies than in product market, which are, however, more coherent. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826643
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Italy; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244125
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Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment
Furceri, Davide; Bernal-Verdugo, Lorenzo E.; Guillaume, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654166
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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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Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Mauritania’s poverty reduction strategy paper is based on a broadly participatory process and serves as the policy framework for the country’s economic and social policies. The focus is to accelerate economic growth and stabilize the macroeconomic framework, which benefits the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245471
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What Can Boost Female Labor Force Participation in Asia?
Kinoshita, Yuko; Guo, Fang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
towards non-regular employment despite women’s high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242431
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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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Republic of Uzbekistan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The Welfare Improvement Strategy (WIS) of Uzbekistan has the objective of improving living standards of its people with the help of strong economic policies for all priority areas of development. The report reviews economic and social policies and assesses the living standards of its people. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243090