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Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...
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carries risks. International experience suggests that China's credit growth is on a dangerous trajectory, with increasing … risks of a disruptive adjustment and/or a marked growth slowdown. Several China-specific factors-high savings, current …
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China and Hong Kong SAR during the subprime crisis. Using both univariate and multivariate GARCH models, this paper finds … that China''s stock market is not immune to the financial crisis, as evidenced by the price and volatility spillovers from … the United States than China''s returns, and past volatility shocks in the United States have a more persistent effect on …
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China weathered the global financial crisis better than most, thanks to a large and timely stimulus. This stimulus …
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This paper documents and assesses the risk stemming from rising corporate indebtedness in China using a firm …
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Cover -- Contents -- Abstract -- I. Introduction -- II. Defining Informality -- III. Informality: Putting Paraguay on the Map -- IV. Linkages with Growth, Inequality and Institutions -- V. Informality, Labor and Firms in Paraguay -- VI. The Role of Public Policy -- VII. Final Remarks -- A....
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Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent contracts unchanged. Recent reforms in France follow...
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