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The macroeconomic effects of labor and product market reforms in Morocco
Sarr, Babacar; Benlamine, Mokhtar; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 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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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - In: Journal of monetary economics 52 (2005) 7, pp. 1297-1330
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How to gain the most from structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs
Andritzky, Jochen; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa; Wang, Ke - 2021
Structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs is designed to support structural reforms by countries borrowing from the IMF. Taking stock of program conditions and their implementation, this paper finds that conditionality focuses on fiscal, monetary and financial issues-areas where IMF...
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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
Dolado, Juan Jose; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...
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Assessing the macroeconomic impact of structural reforms in Ukraine
Ari, Anil; Pula, Gábor - 2021
quality is weakest compared to Poland, followed distantly by market competition, openness to trade and financial depth. Using …
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Privatization, Social Impact, and Social Safety Nets
Gupta, Sanjeev - 1999
Privatization promotes economic efficiency and growth, thereby reinforcing macroeconomic adjustment. In the short run … impacts and the fiscal implications of privatization. It then reviews various methods of privatization and finds that public …’ options for mitigating the social impact of privatization are surveyed, and experiences under adjustment programs reviewed …
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Evidenceon the Fiscal and Macroeconomic Impact of Privatization
Barnett, Steven - 2000
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between privatization and measures of fiscal and macroeconomic … performance. One of the main findings is that privatization proceeds transferred to the budget tend to be saved. Specifically …. However, by construction, this part of the study is restricted to privatization proceeds transferred to the budget, leaving …
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The Politicized Pandemic : Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19
Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022
We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
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