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The Italian Labor Market; Recent Trends, Institutions, and Reform Options

Schindler, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional …

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Reforming Labor and Product Markets; Some Lessons From Two Decades of Experiments in Europe

Boeri, Tito - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

flexibility with state-provided unemployment insurance and can be applied only to new entrants in the market without affecting the …

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Real Unit Labor Costs Differentials in EMU+L4700; How Big, How Benign and How Reversible?

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

Real unit labor costs (RULC) growth differentials between euro area members have persisted since EMU began and even widened out in the run-up to the crisis. This paper focuses on the causes underlying such dispersion. According to our empirical findings, persistent RULC growth differentials can...

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Employment Protection and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies

Lama, Ruy; Urrutia, Carlos - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

We build a small open economy, real business cycle model with labor market frictions to evaluate the role of employment … significant change in aggregate employment. …

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Labor and Product Market Deregulation; Partial, Sequential, or Simultaneous Reform?

Berger, Helge; Danninger, Stephan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This study explores the effects of labor and product market deregulation on employment growth. Our empirical results … employment growth, including through sizable interaction effects. Based on these findings, the paper develops a theoretical …

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Canadian Firm and Job Dynamics

Balakrishnan, Ravi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

To understand better Canada's smooth reallocation of labor in response to the recent commodity price boom, but seemingly poor productivity performance, this paper examines job and firm dynamics in Canada relative to the United States. Overall, it finds that while Canada's labor market efficiency...

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Banks and Labor As Stakeholders; Impacton Economic Performance

Ueda, Kenichi; Claessens, Stijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

affected by bank branch deregulation and employment protection occurring over 1972-1993. We find that financial liberalization …, employment protection promotes those industries that are more knowledge intensive, while the effect of financial liberalization … an efficiency channel, better reallocating resources across sectors, while employment protection creates higher …

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Measuring a Roller Coaster; Evidenceon the Finnish Output Gap

Billmeier, Andreas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

The output gap-which measures the deviation of actual output from its potential-is frequently used as an indicator of slack in an economy. This paper estimates the Finnish output gap using various empirical methods. It evaluates these methods against economic history and each other by a...

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Labor Market Pooling

Blasio, Guido De; Addario, Sabrina Di - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

the likelihood of transiting from wage-and-salary to self-employment. Finally, there is no evidence of higher district …

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Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country

Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

trap if unemployment lowers household wealth below the cost of skills acquisition. …

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