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Banks and Labor As Stakeholders; Impacton Economic Performance
Ueda, Kenichi; Claessens, Stijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Traditionally, the impacts of the rights of financial institutions and workers on corporate performance have been analyzed independently. Yet, theory clearly indicates that the combination of relative powers of different stakeholders affects a firm overall performance. Using U.S. state level and...
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Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries; Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility
Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …
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Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …
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Allocating Business Income between Capital and Labor under a Dual Income Tax; The Case of Iceland
Matheson, Thornton; Kollbeins, Pall - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper … shift would also raise the tax burden of skilled labor-intensive industries more than it would that of capital …
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Kenya; Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual Progress Report: 2003/2004
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
Kenya’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual progress report highlights that sound macroeconomic management policies are finally beginning to yield results in terms of macroeconomic growth, which is the underpinning for future poverty reduction. A high degree of price stability has been...
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Canada; 2006 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
Canada’s macroeconomic and policy performance has continued to outshine most other industrial countries, and its outlook remains favorable. The new government has pledged to maintain the strong social consensus in favor of fiscal surpluses, while aiming at enhancing incentives. The new...
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The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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Is the Growth Momentum in Latin America Sustainable?
Sosa, Sebastian; Tsounta, Evridiki; Kim, Hye S - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
standard (Solow-style) growth accounting methodologies. We find that factor accumulation (especially labor), rather than growth … of capital accumulation and some natural constraints on labor, the strong growth momentum is unlikely to be sustainable …
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Governance and Fund Management in the Chinese Pension System
Hu, Yu-Wei; Impavido, Gregorio; Li, Xiaohong - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The Chinese pension system is highly fragmented and decentralized, with governance standards, pension fund management practices, their regulation and supervision varying considerably both across the funded components of the Chinese pension system and across provinces. This paper describes the...
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Potential Growth of Australia and New Zealand in the Aftermath of the Global Crisis
Sun, Yan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
Using a production function method, this paper assesses the impact of the global crisis on the potential growth of Australia and New Zealand. The two countries have not been hit hard by the global crisis, but have large net external liabilities. The paper finds that the main negative impact of...
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