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Colonial Origins, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Caribbean; Guyana and Barbados

DaCosta, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and...

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Ireland; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

the catch-up in labor utilization productivity and use independent demographic projections and other considerations to … make reasonable assumptions about labor productivity and utilization growth in the future. It uses a simple growth …-accounting framework, and discusses the trends in labor utilization and productivity per hour in the past. The paper also describes the …

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Turkey at the Crossroads; From Crisis Resolution to EU Accession

McGettigan, Donal; Debrun, Xavier; Griffiths, Mark E. L.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

reform, and labor markets. The analysis assesses the effectiveness of macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms …

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How Does Employment Protection Legislation Affect Unemployment in Tunisia? a Search Equilibrium Approach

Fanizza, Domenico; Koranchelian, Taline - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper applies a search matching model with firing restrictions to examine whether the existence of firing restrictions affects the outcome of the matching process and the natural rate of unemployment in Tunisia. The paper concludes that the removal of firing restrictions is likely to...

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Employment Protection and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies

Lama, Ruy; Urrutia, Carlos - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

We build a small open economy, real business cycle model with labor market frictions to evaluate the role of employment …

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India's Pattern of Development; What Happened, What Follows?

Subramanian, Arvind; Rajan, Raghuram; Tokatlidis, Ioannis; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill-intensive rather than laborintensive manufacturing,...

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International Spillover of Labor Market Reforms

Dao, Mai - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper uses a dynamic economy model, with unionized labor markets, to analyze the effects of labor market reforms … Germany and the rest of the Euro area. The results indicate that German labor market reforms have positive spillover effects … integration. Compared to a competitive labor market, setting, unionization dampens the positive response of the domestic economy …

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Measuring the Informal Economy in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Abdih, Yasser; Medina, Leandro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

system, rigid labor market, low institutional quality, and excessive regulation in financial and products markets are …

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Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis

Furceri, Davide; Crivelli, Ernesto; Toujas-Bernate, Joël - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

period 1991 - 2009, the results suggest that structural policies aimed at increasing labor and product market flexibility and …

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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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