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Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
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-size companies and depends on the nature of wage-bargaining systems. …
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Wide-ranging structural reforms are underway in Italy, aimed at addressing key bottlenecks in the product and labor markets. Our analysis, based on the IMF‘s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF), attempts to quantify the potential gains to the economy from a comprehensive...
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France’s economic short-term outlook is positive, and long-term prospects have improved. Fiscal adjustment remains high on the government’s agenda. Tax reforms have improved the economy’s growth potential. Reforms in financial, labor, and product markets are necessary to...
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workers to access freedom of association and collective bargaining. It shows that collective protests, the establishment of … new organizations of workers and platforms, social dialogue and, to a limited extent, collective bargaining are taking … an even more enabling environment for freedom of association and collective bargaining in order to realize the …
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Several countries extend collective bargaining agreements to entire sectors, therefore binding non-subscriber workers … until recently. We find that both formal employment and wage bills in the relevant sector fall, on average, by 2% - and by …
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This paper analyses the heterogeneous effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on the incidence of wage … major changes in bargaining systems and economic conditions. Our regression results from models with high …-dimensional individual and firm fixed effects show that decentralized bargaining leads to very different outcomes for blue- and white …
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-and firm-level fixed effects show that decentralized wage bargaining leads to distinct outcomes for different employee groups …
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