Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 10
Cover Image
China's Economic Growth; International Spillovers
Vamvakidis, Athanasios; Arora, Vivek B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper presents some facts on China’s role in the world economy and measures the impact of China’s growth on growth in the rest of the world in the short and long term. Short-run estimates based on VARs and error-correction models suggest that spillover effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560430
Cover Image
The Impact of U.S. Economic Growthon the Rest of the World; How Much Does it Matter?
Vamvakidis, Athanasios; Arora, Vivek B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the impact of economic growth in the United States on growth in other countries. Using panel data estimation, the paper finds a significant positive impact of U.S. growth on growth in the rest of the world, especially developing countries, during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769024
Cover Image
The Implications of South African Economic Growth for the Rest of Africa
Arora, Vivek B.; Vamvakidis, Athanasios - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper measures the extent to which South African economic growth is an engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Results based on panel data estimation for 47 African countries over four decades suggest that South African growth has a substantial positive impact on growth in the rest of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599760
Cover Image
How Much Do Trading Partners Matter for Economic Growth?
Arora, Vivek B.; Vamvakidis, Athanasios - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper empirically examines the extent to which a country's economic growth is influenced by its trading partner economies. Panel estimation results based on four decades of data for over 100 countries show that trading partners' growth and relative income levels have a strong effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605092
Cover Image
Regional Wage Differentiation and Wage Bargaining Systems in the EU
Vamvakidis, Athanasios - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
The theoretical literature has argued that a centralized wage bargaining system may result in low regional wage differentiation and high regional unemployment differentials. The empirical literature has found that centralized wage bargaining leads to lower wage inequality for different skills,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264211
Cover Image
Can policies affect employment intensity of growth? : a cross-country analysis
Crivelli, Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; Toujas-Bernaté, Joël - 2012
The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621620
Cover Image
Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment
Furceri, Davide; Bernal-Verdugo, Lorenzo E.; Guillaume, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654166
Cover Image
Economic Growth in Croatia; Potential and Constraints
Moore, David; Vamvakidis, Athanasios - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper examines the factors and constraints that affect recent and potential growth in Croatia, as well as policies that can influence it. On current productivity trends, it estimates Croatia's potential growth rate at 4-4½ percent, a result reasonably robust to different methodologies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599301
Cover Image
Unemployment and Labor Market Issues in Algeria
Furceri, Davide - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
may hamper employment creation. The results of the paper suggest that the relative low output-employment elasticities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790348
Cover Image
Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis
Furceri, Davide; Crivelli, Ernesto; Toujas-Bernate, Joël - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155507