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This paper examines the implicit subsidies within pension systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. We first calculate the theoretical benefits of pension for hypothetical workers in 25 countries in LAC. We show that, on average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they...
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changes, (iii) public debt sustainability and (iv) monetary policy. Following a one standard deviation shock, uncertainty … about debt sustainability has the largest and most significant impact on real activity, with negative effects on output … by debt sustainability. Our results are based on a new empirical framework that allows the volatility of identified …
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This paper analyzes the sustainability of Costa Rican sovereign debt within the intertemporal budget constraint … framework, which is complemented with the estimation of the fiscal reaction function and a risk assessment under the fan chart … in the long run, and in the short run there have been few instances of debt sustainability since the economic crisis of …
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This paper examines the impact on unemployment, unemployment distribution, wages and welfare of Youth Unemployment Programmes (YUPs). The aim of YUP is to increase the number of young people acquiring skills. We assume that the YUPs are a complete success and consequently analyse what happens...
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This paper examins the macroeconomic effects of youth unemployement programmes in the form of vocational training (YUPs), developing a two sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining for skilled workers. Unskilled sector wages are indexed to...
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correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first …
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Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics as risk factors for depression …
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