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Reforming Employment Protection Legislation in France
Zhou, Jian-Ping - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased … hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825839
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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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France; 2006 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report, Staff Supplement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
France’s economic short-term outlook is positive, and long-term prospects have improved. Fiscal adjustment remains high on the government’s agenda. Tax reforms have improved the economy’s growth potential. Reforms in financial, labor, and product markets are necessary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245675
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Social Returns to Education; Evidence From Italian Local Labor Market Areas
Dalmazzo, A.; Blasio, Guido De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
The paper provides a quantitative assessment of social returns to education in Italy. It shows that, after controlling for individual characteristics, local average human capital is positively correlated with individual wages, with estimated social returns between 2 and 3 percent. This result is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248310
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Structural Reforms in the Euro Area; Economic Impact and Role of Synchronization Across Markets and Countries
Everaert, Luc; Schule, Werner - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
sizable long-term gains in output and employment. Most of these gains accrue to the reforming country regardless of whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264078
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How Has the Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries?
Jaumotte, Florence; Tytell, Irina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
globalization, technological progress, and labor market policies to the decline in the labor share. The results, obtained for 18 … advanced countries over 1982- 2002, suggest that globalization was only one of several factors that have affected the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768889
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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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Minimum Wages and Firm Employment: Evidence from China
Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123849
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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123865
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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper reviews the extent to which growth in Ethiopia has translated into higher living standards. A key feature of the economic strategy has been an explicit commitment to poverty reduction and structural transformation. This is underpinned by the vision of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244172