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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 protection in shaping business cycles in emerging economies. The model features matching frictions and an endogenous selection effect by which inefficient jobs are destroyed in...

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Portugal; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper on Portugal reviews the considerations regarding productivity slowdown. The favorable evolution of income growth from the 1970s to the mid-1990s in Portugal was associated with above-average productivity growth but also reflected a more moderate decline in the amount...

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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries

Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

entrepreneurs innovate—in the Schumpeterian sense—in order to bring about structural changes in the economy. The conclusion …

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Show Me the Money; Access to Finance for Small Borrowers in Canada

Klyuev, Vladimir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper examines access to business finance by Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to housing finance by Canadian households (particularly non-prime borrowers) against the background of a fairly concentrated and protected banking industry. It finds access broadly adequate...

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Growth and Capital Flows with Risky Entrepreneurship

Sandri, Damiano - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper shows that the behavior of entrepreneurs facing incomplete financial markets and risky investment can … uninsurable risk of losing invested capital forces entrepreneurs to rely on self-financing, so that when business opportunities … open up entrepreneurs increase saving to finance the investment that produces growth. The key insight is that saving has to …

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Sudden Stops, Output Drops, and Credit Collapses

Dagher, Jihad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper proposes a tractable Sudden Stop model to explain the main patterns in firm level data in a sample of Southeast Asian firms during the Asian crisis. The model, which features trend shocks and financial frictions, is able to generate the main patterns observed in the sample during and...

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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 on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...

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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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Effects of Globalizationon Labor's Share in National Income

Guscina, Anastasia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

The past two decades have seen a decline in labor's share of national income in several industrial countries. This paper analyzes the role of three factors in explaining movements in labor's share--factor-biased technological progress, openness to trade, and changes in employment...

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Emerging Strains in GCC Labor Markets

Fasano-Filho, Ugo; Goyal, Rishi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Unemployment pressures among nationals are emerging in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC). 2 At a time when a rapidly growing number of young nationals are entering the labor force and governments are no longer able to act as employers of first and last resort, the...

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