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China: The Iron Rice-Bowl is Broken
Lemoine, Françoise - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2001) 202
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The Effect of International Trade on Labour Demand Elasticities: Intersectoral Matters
Jean, Sébastien - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2000
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Economic Liberalization with Rising Segmentation on China's Urban Labor Market
Démurger, Sylvie; Fournier, Martin; Shi, Li; Wei, Zhong - 2014
The massive downsizing of the state-owned sector and the concomitant impressive growth of the private sector at the end of the 1990s have altered the nature of the Chinese labor market. By bringing in more competition and market mechanisms, they have contributed to increasing labor turnover and...
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The crisis, policy reactions and attitudes to globalization and jobs
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011
We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...
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Macroeconomic Policy, Wage Setting, and Employment--What Difference Does the Emu Make?
Calmfors, Lars - 1999
The likely impact of the EMU on the variability and level of employment is analyzed. The major conclusions are as follows: (i) Although an inflation-target regime will constrain monetary policy of a non-participant in the EMU, it still leaves considerable scope for exchange-rate changes in the...
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Where Keynes Went Wrong : An Unnecessary Revolution?
Glasner, David - 2011
This paper discusses the development of Keynes's ideas about monetary theory in the context of the consequences of Britain's return to the gold standard (opposed by Keynes) in 1925 and his initial unsuccessful attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of macroeconomic fluctuations in his...
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The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs
Bell, David N.F. - 2011
We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125468
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Myanmar's two decades of partial transition to a market economy : a negative legacy for the new government
Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
Despite more than two decades of transition from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy, Myanmar’s economic … transition is still only partly complete. The government’s initial strategy for dealing with the swelling deficits of the state … economic transition in China and Vietnam, where partial reforms weakened further impetus for reforms. …
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Re-thinking of "Chintanakan Mai" (new thinking) : new perspective for understanding Lao PDR
Yamada, Norihiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
To date, many previous studies have viewed "Chintanakan Mai" (New Thinking), which was introduced in 1986, as one of the most important factors required for understanding present-day Laos. They tend to see the year 1986 as a watershed in Lao history and divide the history after 1975 into two...
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Tabus verzögern Wirtschaftsreformen in Syrien
Binzel, Christine; Brück, Tilman; Handrich, Lars; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 7, pp. 69-74
Syrien steht mitten in einem wirtschaftlichen Reformprozess. Dieser ist notwendig, da die Ölreserven zur Neige gehen, wodurch die Leistungsbilanz stark negativ geworden ist. Gleichzeitig ist die Unterbeschäftigung hoch und das Pro-Kopf-Einkommen stagniert. Subventionen und Zahl der...
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