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Three Million Foreigners, Three Million Unemployed? : Immigration and the French Labor Market

Gross, Dominique M. - 1999

This paper investigates the effects of the flows of immigrant workers on the French labor market between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s. Using a system of equations for unemployment, labor-force participation, the real wage, and the immigration rate, it is shown that, in the long run, legal and...

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Productivity Growth, Technological Convergence, RandD, Trade, and Labor Markets : Evidence From the French Manufacturing Sector

Khan, Tehmina S. - 2006

Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during …

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Are remittances good for labor markets in LICs, MICs and fragile states? : evidence from cross-country data

Chami, Ralph; Ernst, Ekkehard; Fullenkamp, Connel; … - 2018

We present cross-country evidence on the impact of remittances on labor market outcomes. Remittances appear to have a strong impact on both labor supply and labor demand in recipient countries. These effects are highly significant and greater in size than those of foreign direct investment or...

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Institutional Structure and Labor Market Outcomes : Western Lessons for European Countries in Transition

Flanagan, Robert J. - 1995

Changes in economic systems provide a rare opportunity to redesign basic institutional structures in labor markets. This paper attempts to provide guidance for such institutional choice by drawing on the findings of recent labor market research in market economies on the links between...

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Destabilizing the global monetary system : Germany's adoption of the gold standard in the early 1870s

Wiegand, Johannes - 2019

bimetallism, id est, a near-universal fixed exchange rate system in which (mostly) France stabilized the exchange value between … France, which would have severed the link between gold and silver currencies. Without reform, Germany would thus have risked … accommodation, however. Victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 allowed Germany to force accommodation, but only until France …

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France and the Breakdown of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System

Simard, Dominique - 1994

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

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Pandemic and progressivity

Klemm, Alexander; Mauro, Paolo - 2021

Based on a survey of about 2,500 US resident adults, we show that people who have experienced serious illness or job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or who personally know someone who has, favor a temporary progressive levy or structural progressive tax reform to a greater extent than...

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The Spanish labor market in a cross-country perspective

Jaumotte, Florence - 2011

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To fire or to hoard? : explaining Japan’s labor market response in the Great Recession

Steinberg, Chad Bennett; Nakane, Masato - 2011

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Comparing the employment-output elasticities of expatriates and nationals in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Behar, Alberto - 2015

We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment response is lower for nationals, who have an...

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