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The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects
Beissinger, Thomas; Büsse, Oliver - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität … - 2002
consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063034
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Northern Star; Canada's Path to Economic Prosperity
Klyuev, Vladimir; Mühleisen, Martin; Bayoumi, Tamim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account surpluses -- it's a record to be envied. These outcomes in Canada owe much to sound macroeconomic policies, as well as to a favorable external environment. This book focuses on these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245903
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The Impact of Tradeon Wages; What If Countries Are Not Small?
Tokutsu, Ichiro; Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
of trade on relative wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263956
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Economic Stabilization and Growth in Portugal
Schmitt, Hans O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1981
This paper reviews economic stabilization and growth in Portugal during the 1970s. Following a decade of rapid growth with external equilibrium, the Portuguese economy in the early 1970s suffered a series of major shocks. The paper highlights that the problem of managing economic growth with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824861
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Economic Integration, Sectoral Diversification, and Exchange Rate Policy in a Developing Economy
Srour, Gabriel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825986
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Competitiveness, Wage Adjustment and Macroeconomic Policy in a Small Open Economy
Alogoskoufis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
assuming that the traded goods sector is competitive while the non-traded goods sector is oligopolistic, I show that real wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504264
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Hong Kong SAR; Meeting the Challenges of Integration with the Mainland
Lee, William; Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Iakova, Dora M.; Papa … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This Occasional Paper provides an overview of the main challenges facing Hong Kong SAR as it continues to become more closely integrated with the mainland of China. Section I provides an overview of recent macroeconomic developments and the main policy issues in Hong Kong SAR. Section II...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590857
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Mozambique; Recent Economic Developments
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1997
This paper reviews economic developments in the Republic of Mozambique during 1990–96. Under the Economic and Social Rehabilitation Program (ESRP), the economy has made impressive economic gains. Real GDP growth averaged 6.7 percent in 1987–95, despite the civil war, a decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591642
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Quantifying the Impact of Tradeon Wages; The Role of Nontraded Goods
Tokarick, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
-related variables on wages of skilled and unskilled labor between 1982 and 1996 in the United States. The results indicate that trade … widening wage gap. Also, changes in total factor productivity had a small effect on relative wages. The major factor behind the … presents estimates of the effect of trade on wages by calculating what wage rates would be under autarky. The results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599575
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An Efficiency-Wage Model of Unemployment in an Open Economy.
Brecher, Richard - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 1989
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626990