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Unemployment, Growth and Taxation in Industrial Countries

Daveri, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - 2010

To the layman, the upward trend in European unemployment is related to the slowdown in economic growth. We argue that the layman's view is correct. The increase in European unemployment and the slowdown in economic growth are related because they stem from a common cause: an excessively high...

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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela : Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses

Fields, Gary; Duval-Hernandez, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - 2021

This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growth periods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those who experience the largest earnings gains or the...

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Fostering a strong labour market to support the recovery and sustain growth in Switzerland

Salins, Veronique - 2022

Switzerland has a well-functioning labour market with low unemployment, a highly skilled workforce and well-paid jobs. It has proved resilient during the COVID-19 crisis, helped by extensive government support to employment and incomes. As activity recovers, the authorities face the challenge of...

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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010

This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...

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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?

Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - 2006

assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …

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Informality and long-run growth

Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …

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The welfare state redistribution and the economy : reciprocal altruism, consumer rivalry and second best

van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2004

Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...

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Falling labor share and rising unemployment: Long-run consequences of institutional shocks?

Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer; Thode, Eric - 1999

The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is largely neglected. Job-creation is often thought to be a matter of encouraging more employment on a given capital stock. In contrast, this paper explicitly deals with the long-run...

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Do Schumpeterian Waves of Creative Destruction Lead to Higher Productivity? Panel Data Evidence from Poland

Warzynski, Frederic - 2002

We look at the detfirminants and consequences of job reallocation in the 22 2-digit sectors of the manufacturing industry in Poland over the period 1993 - 1997. Import competition and competitive market structure (weak concentration) are found to lead to more reallocation. Moreover, more...

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ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT

Cameron, Gavin; Fawcett, Nicholas - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

In 2000, the Lisbon Agenda set out an ambitious plan to make the EuropeanUnion “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy inthe world”. The Agenda suggested a need for action on three broad fronts:the first explicitly macroeconomic; the second explicitly microeconomic;the third...

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