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This paper presents a framework for quantitatively evaluating the macroeconomic effects of corporate restructuring and applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of...
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The obstacles to economic growth in Mongolia are modeled with a supply-side growth model calibrated to represent inefficient use of resources and intermediation. Progressive removal of inefficiencies over time by means of privatization of banks and industrial enterprises potentially leads to...
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Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …
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The Chinese pension system is highly fragmented and decentralized, with governance standards, pension fund management practices, their regulation and supervision varying considerably both across the funded components of the Chinese pension system and across provinces. This paper describes the...
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Using a production function method, this paper assesses the impact of the global crisis on the potential growth of Australia and New Zealand. The two countries have not been hit hard by the global crisis, but have large net external liabilities. The paper finds that the main negative impact of...
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This paper develops a model of the process of reallocation of labor from the state sector to the private sector. When …
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size to set up a quasi-experiment and data from the French labor force survey, we show that the law constrained the choice …
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standard (Solow-style) growth accounting methodologies. We find that factor accumulation (especially labor), rather than growth … of capital accumulation and some natural constraints on labor, the strong growth momentum is unlikely to be sustainable …
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capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper … shift would also raise the tax burden of skilled labor-intensive industries more than it would that of capital …
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