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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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In this paper, we argue that inflation targeting could be the future of Tunisia's monetary policy. Monetary targeting … reserves, current account deficit, and inflation differentials with main trading partners. The Central Bank of Tunisia has …
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restrictions affects the outcome of the matching process and the natural rate of unemployment in Tunisia. The paper concludes that … the removal of firing restrictions is likely to produce a favorable but limited impact on unemployment in Tunisia …
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The development of empirical foundations to the conduct of monetary policy in Tunisia is the central concern of this …
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Over the past decade or so, Tunisia has experienced a strong economic performance while pursuing a constant real … Tunisia avoided the pitfalls of real exchange rate targeting as predicted by the theoretical models. By estimating the …
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government's policy decision aimed at reducing those costs. Then, we estimate the model using Bayesian techniques for Tunisia and … entry-sunk costs in Tunisia versus the Euro Area. We find significant welfare benefits in addition to aggregate and sectoral …
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This paper discusses the use of interest rates as the operating target for monetary policy in Tunisia and the roadmap …
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