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Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di; Tirelli, Patrizio - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper we analyze macroeconomic interactions among trade unions, the central bank and the fiscal policymaker. We explicitly model trade unionsconcern for public expenditure, paving the way for an analysis of the potential gains from cooperation between the fiscal policymaker and the trade...

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Instrument Choice and the Returns to Education: New Evidence from Vietnam

Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice; Gyselinck, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

This paper focuses on instrument choice while consistently estimating the returns to education in Vietnam. Using data … culled from the 2 rounds of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS), we explore different sets of exogenous instruments …

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The Employment and Social Consequences of Vietnam's International Economic Integration

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

the game" (or new rules) by which economic activity is conducted. In the context of vietnam, "restructuring" is generally … reforms. This paper examines labour issues in restructuring Vietnam's state sector, the social protection system and options …

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Vietnam's Labour Market in Transition

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

This report examines the employment structure and structural change (1986-1999) of Vietnam, discusses Vietnam's labour … market regulations and examines how Vietnam's labour markets could become more efficient. Vietnam’s labour policies remain … to extend state worker privileges throughout the economy. This is a futile exercise to establish a welfare state in a …

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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs

RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims at analysing the relation between competitiveness and economic growth for the period 1995-2000 (2002 for some variables). To this aim we analyse the evolution of the unit labour cost by sector (‘traded’ and ‘non-traded’ sector) and decomposition between the unit labour...

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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005

The commissioned study into the ageing of Australia’s population was released April 2005. The Commission found that one quarter of Australians will be aged 65 years or more by 2044-45, roughly double the present proportion. This gives rise to significant policy challenges. The Commission...

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