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This paper on Selected Issues was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on October 23, 2012. The views expressed in this...
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problems in its labor market, reflected in its high long–term and youth unemployment. Our analysis of the drivers of labor …
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This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …
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This paper examines age- and gender-specific employment sensitivity to growth across different economic sectors. By …-, gender-, and sector-specific employment intensities to growth. Our study examines the ability of growth in different sectors … to generate total employment opportunities. Results show that regardless of gender or age, the employment growth is …
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New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the...
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This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to … employment and contributes to the improvement of job quality. Specifically, product and marketing innovations emerge as important … tools for increasing employment in Ecuador. Moreover, product innovation favors high-skilled over low-skilled work- ers …
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