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Social programs and formal employment : evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program

Fruttero, Anna; Leichsenring, Alexandre Ribeiro; Paiva, … - 2020

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal...

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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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European Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness : The Case of Italy

Tiffin, Andrew - 2014

In Italy, price-based competitiveness measures are not always an accurate predictor of trade outcomes. This paper … Italy’s export market share. Overall, Italy maintains a high-quality export mix, and the adaptability of small … sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …

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Fiscal Expectations Under the Stability and Growth Pact : Evidence From Survey Data

Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos - 2011

France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom during the period of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). Our findings …'s and market experts’ deficit forecasts also increased in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, particularly during the …

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European Financial Integration and Revenue from Seignorage : The Case of Italy

International Monetary Fund - 1989

exchange rate expectations and on interest rates on publicly held government debt. In Italy, the high stock of such debt in …

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The Italian Lira in the Narrow Erm Band : The Challenge of Credibility

Molho, Lazaros E. - 1991

interest rate differentials and capital and reserve flows suggest that Italy’s nonaccommodating exchange rate policy has become …

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Labor Market Institutions and Flexibility in Italy : A Critical Evaluation and Some International Comparisons

Demekas, Dimitri G. - 1994

The paper surveys three broad categories of labor market institutions in Italy: employment protection legislation …

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Productivity growth and value chains in four European countries

Karpowicz, Izabela; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - 2020

Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four...

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Budgetary Transparency for Public Expenditure Control

Reviglio, Franco - 2001

This paper explains why EMU countries seem unable or unwilling to undertake structural reforms of public expenditure. One of the reasons is political. What public expenditure reforms might be pursued without changing the political system? Without political reforms, technical improvements made to...

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Why Are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective

Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...

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