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Data and metadata exchange between organizations requires a common language for describing structure and content of statistical data and metadata. The SDMX consortium develops content oriented guidelines (COG) recommending harmonized cross-domain concepts and terminology to increase the...
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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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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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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 … grounded in theory-namely that job protection deregulation should have larger negative effects in industries characterized by …
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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 responses of sectoral employment to large job protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the …
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This paper explores the macroeconomic impacts of labor and product market deregulation using a small open-economy model … product market deregulation, are good at reducing short-term costs. Finally, concerning the speed of adjustment, it is usually …
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markets. Along with increasing GDP and employment, deregulation also leads to lower informality and greater product market …
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full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional services sector. The … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the smal size of professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii) have …
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