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Internal Trade in Canada : Case for Liberalization
Alvarez, Jorge - 2019
This paper assesses the costs of internal trade barriers and proposes policies to improve internal trade. Estimates suggest that complete liberalization of internal trade in goods can increase GDP per capita by about 4 percent and reallocate employment towards provinces that experience large...
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Make in India
Anand, Rahul - 2015
Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and complexity of the export basket. We identify five...
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Labor and Product Market Reforms in Morocco
Sarr, Babacar - 2019
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If...
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A Narrative Database of Major Labor and Product Market Reforms in Advanced Economies
Duval, Romain - 2018
This paper describes a new database of major labor and product market reforms covering 26advanced economies over the period 1970-2013. The focus is on large changes in product marketregulation in seven individual network industries, employment protection legislation for regularand temporary...
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Job Protection Deregulation in Good and Bad Times
Duval, Romain - 2018
of sectoral employment to largejob protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the economy at the …
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Employment Protection Deregulation and Labor Shares in Advanced Economies
Ciminelli, Gabriele - 2018
Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver … the impact of job protection deregulation in a sample of 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2015, using a newly … grounded in theory-namely that job protection deregulation should have larger negative effects in industries characterized by …
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Structural Reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom - 2016
full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional services sector. The … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii) have …
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Product Market Deregulation and Growth : New Country-Industry-Level Evidence
Bouis, Romain - 2016
The paper investigates the economic effects of major product market reforms in some of the historically most protected non-manufacturing industries. It relies on a unique mapping between new annual data on reform shocks and sector-level outcomes for five network industries (electricity and gas,...
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ASEAN Financial Integration
Almekinders, Geert - 2015
The establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at end-2015 has brought into sharp focus the issue of financial and economic integration in the region. This paper takes stock of ASEAN's financial integration and prospects. ASEAN integration could accelerate in the years ahead; it will...
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The EU Services Directive : Gains from Further Liberalization
Corugedo, Emilio Fernández - 2014
The EU Services Directive was adopted in 2006 to foster competition in services across Europe. However, progress in liberalizing services has fallen short of expectations due to the article 15 of the Directive, which allows countries to maintain pre-existing restrictions if judged necessary to...
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