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This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …
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In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …
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the indicators suggest that full employment was achieved. The primary reason for this employment miracle was the output …
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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …
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This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative …
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Over the last decades, hours worked per capita have declined substantially in many OECD economies. Using a neoclassical growth model with endogenous work-leisure choice, we assess the role of trend growth slowdown in accounting for the decline in hours worked. In the model, a permanent reduction...
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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and …
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For the past nearly forty years, China has experienced average annual real GDP growth of close to ten percent, much of … expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment in driving economic growth in China, questions how much longer China can … reduction in investment. It also notes that investment in China remains broad-based across all economic sectors, with little …
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We study the relationship between finance and growth using a sample of 275 Chinese cities during 2009-2018. We exclude a large amount of bank loans to local governments through the local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). This allows us to construct a new and better financial development...
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