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agricultural feminization and engage in formal wage employment, but these opportunities diminish when women marry-a disadvantage …
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This paper explores the macroeconomic impacts of labor and product market deregulation using a small open-economy model with formal and informal markets. We examine both the long-run effects and the transition towards the post-reform equilibrium, while our main focus are reform packages and...
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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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this had on labor productivity also played a role. In many countries, post-2007 employment losses were modest, as real … this context, the paper discusses the different experiences of the UK (where employment increased) and Spain (where it fell … sharply), and finds that almost two thirds of the employment losses in Spain resulted from the failure of real wages to adjust …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
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This paper analyzes the effects of selected structural reforms on output and employment in the short and medium term … and employment in the medium term. Furthermore, the paper also assesses whether the impact of structural reforms varies … characteristics do influence the effectiveness of structural reforms. These findings have relevant policy implications as they help …
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A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i …; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production, similar to True Industrial Policy (TIP), on a global level to achieve a …
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The international monetary system is largely the product of negotiations during World War II between U.S. and U …
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Countries compiling quarterly estimates for gross domestic product (GDP) often use alternative approaches simultaneously. This may result in the publication of different measures of quarterly GDP and discrepancies between these measures. Such discrepancies are unavoidable, unless reconciliation...
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The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
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