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Lucas vs. Lucas; On Inequality and Growth
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Verdier, Geneviève - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Lucas (2004) asserts that "Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution... The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current...
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Germany; 2006 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Germa...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The three-point VAT increase is part of a package in which unemployment payroll taxes will be reduced. Risks to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244866
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Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries
Keller, Christian; Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
During the transition process, many existing social sector institutions and policies were significantly eroded and their underlying character changed. As a result, they often do not redistribute to the poorest, nor generally serve the role of facilitating economic change. Social sector reforms...
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"Modernize and die"? : german social democracy and the electoral consequences of the Agenda 2010
Schwander, Hanna; Manow, Philip - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 1, pp. 117-134
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Argentina; Macroeconomic Crisis and Household Vulnerability
Inchauste, Gabriela; Corbacho, Ana; Garcia-Escribano, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Using urban household surveys, we constructed a panel dataset to study the effects of the Argentine macroeconomic crisis of 1999-2002 with the aim of (1) identifying the most vulnerable households, (2) investigating whether employment in the public sector and government spending served to...
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Republic of Uzbekistan; Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This paper reviews Uzbekistan’s Interim Welfare Improvement Strategy Paper (I-WISP). I-WISP defines the main directions and measures aimed at improving living standards and reducing poverty among the population of Uzbekistan for 2005–10. The strategy is designed to further expand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825518
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The Aging of the Population and the Size of the Welfare State
Swagel, Phillip; Sadka, Efraim; Razin, Assaf - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
which addresses this seeming puzzle. We show that with democratic voting, a higher dependency ratio can lead to lower taxes …
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Aging Populations and Public Pension Schemes
Chand, Sheetal K.; Jaeger, Albert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1996
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Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands; 2004 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Staff Statement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
The staff report for the 2004 Article IV Consultation on the Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands highlights the economic developments and policies. The economy is beginning to emerge from an extended downturn. Meanwhile, against a background of soft labor market conditions and economic...
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Can Institutional Reform Reduce Job Destruction and Unemployment Duration? Yes it Can
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …
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