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Still attached? : are social safety nets working? : labor force participation in European regions

Hilgenstock, Benjamin; Koczan, Zsoka - 2018

The paper examines the evolution and drivers of labor force participation in European regions, focusing on the effects of trade and technology. As in the United States, rural regions within European countries saw more pronounced declines (or smaller increases) in participation than urban...

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Job protection deregulation in good and bad times

Duval, Romain; Furceri, Davide; Jalles, João Tovar - 2017

the responses of sectoral employment to large job protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the …This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection for regular workers and how it …

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Inequality, poverty, and social protection in Bulgaria

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2020

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal redistribution. The redistributive role of direct taxation has...

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The EU services directive : gains from further liberalization

Fernández Corugedo, Emilio; Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 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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Employment protection deregulation and labor shares in advanced economies

Ciminelli, Gabriele; Duval, Romain; Furceri, Davide - 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 … constructed dataset of major reforms to employment protection legislation for regular contracts. We apply the local projection …

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Macroeconomic Effects of Social Security and Tax Reform in the United States

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2005

We use the IMF''s Global Fiscal Model to evaluate recent proposals to reform social security and the tax system in the United States. Introducing personal retirement accounts is unlikely to yield significant macroeconomic benefits unless it spurs additional fiscal consolidation to prevent a...

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Storm clouds ahead? : migration and labor force participation rates in Europe

Hilgenstock, Benjamin; Koczan, Zsoka - 2018

The paper examines the potential effects of international migration on labor force participation in advanced economies in Europe. It documents that migration played a significant role in alleviating aging pressures on labor supply by affecting the age composition of receiving countries'...

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Reducing and redistributing unpaid work : stronger policies to support gender equality

Alonso, Cristian; Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2019

Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a significant share of economic activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder the burden of unpaid work: on average, women do two more hours of unpaid work per day than men,...

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Recent U.S. labor force dynamics : reversible or not?

Balakrishnan, Ravi; Dao, Mai; Solé López-Pinto, Juan; … - 2015

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Labor force participation and monetary policy in the wake of the Great Recession

Erceg, Christopher J.; Levin, Andrew T. - 2013

In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of the post-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate a stylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during “normal...

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