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Rethinking the EU financial architecture
Acedo Montoya, Lourdes - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 58 (2023) 6, pp. 289-294
The European Union has weathered a number of turbulent storms in recent years from the COVID-19 pandemic to the ongoing war in Ukraine. These crises have highlighted the limitations of the EU budget and the need for the flexibility to adequately respond to challenges in real time. They have also...
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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility : the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies
Addison, John T. - 2015
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next …
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Prospects of bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh
Sikdar, Chandrima - In: Foreign trade review : quarterly journal of Indian … 41 (2006) 1, pp. 27-45
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Terms of Trade and Its Implications: Bangladesh Perspective
Masuduzzaman, Mohammad; Hussain, Muhammad Imam - eSocialSciences - 2012
of Bangladesh has been in falling almost continuously. Bangladesh’s trade performance has improved and gaining momentum … despite the TOT deterioration. Bangladesh is also experiencing a net welfare gain from trade due to its increasing market … share in terms of export volume and gains in productivity, especially in the dominant garment sector. [BB WP No. 1201]. URL:[http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/openpdf.php]. …
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Do the COVID-19 crisis, ageing and climate change put Swiss fiscal sustainability at risk?
Brändle, Thomas; Bruchez, Pierre-Alain; Colombier, Carsten - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 57 (2022) 1, pp. 48-55
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic crisis as well as demographic and climate change pose major challenges for public finances. This article deals with the implications of demographic trends in Switzerland, i.e. the progressive ageing of the population and its impact on the country’s public...
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
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Fiscal effects of minimum wages : an analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
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Better fiscal rules for a more integrated EMU
Jaillet, Pierre; Pfister, Christian - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 57 (2022) 6, pp. 377-383
The COVID-19 pandemic and the pressure it has created on member states’ public finances have led European authorities to suspend the EU’s fiscal rules. In fact, these rules had long been criticised by academics and had only been abided by exceptionally. Beyond the rules themselves, the...
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