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Two Sides of the Same Coin? Rebalancing and Inclusive Growth in China

Lee, Il Houng; Syed, Murtaza H.; Wang, Xin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the...

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Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal

Kireyev, Alexei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

The paper examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducing and distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in the last two decades, but poverty reduction has...

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Inequalities and Growth in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Region

Basdevant, Olivier; Benicio, Dalmacio; Yakhshilikov, Yorbol - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper applies the work of Berg and Ostry (2011) to the SACU region, to identify how inequalities have played a role in growth in each of these countries, and elaborates policy options to mitigate the effects of inequalities and foster growth. Lower income inequalities could lead to...

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Monetary and Macroprudential Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model of the Euro Area

Quint, Dominic; Rabanal, Pau - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

In this paper, we study the optimal mix of monetary and macroprudential policies in an estimated two-country model of the euro area. The model includes real, nominal and financial frictions, and hence both monetary and macroprudential policy can play a role. We find that the introduction of a...

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Skill Mismatch and Migration in Egypt and Tunisia

Nordman, Christophe Jalil; David, Anda Mariana - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of skill mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and potential migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants acquire before and during migration and the way these...

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Does Elderly Employment have an Impact on Youth Employment? A General Equilibrium Approach

Stiassny, Alfred; Uhl, Christina - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2014

Does an increase of elderly employment cause a decline in youth employment? A simplified view of a demand driven economy would give a positive answer to this question. Econometric studies based on a single equation approach deliver little support for this belief. However, these studies typically...

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How to Measure Underemployment?

Blanchflower, David; Bell, David N. F. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2013

Unemployment rates in the United States have been slow to fall over the last couple of years despite a modest growth in the number of people employed. The increase in nonfarm payrolls has averaged 191,000 a month over the last year, but the number of unemployed has fallen only by about 81,000 a...

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The role of Institutions in explaining wage determination in the Euro Area: a panel cointegration approach

Camarero, Mariam; Gaetano D’Adamo; Tamarit, Cecilio - Departament d'Estructura Econòmica, Facultad de Economía - 2014

Over the last 15 years, the evolution of labor costs has been very diverse across EMU countries. Since wages have important second-round effects on prices and competitiveness, and EMU countries do not have the tool of the nominal exchange rate to correct for such imbalances, understanding the...

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Gender Attitudes In The World Of Work: Cross-Cultural Comparison

Soboleva, Natalia - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

This paper deals with factors determining work-related gender attitudes. With the spread of emancipative values the … difference between gender roles is becoming more vague but is still strongly dependent upon country characteristics. While gender … characteristics among factors determining gender attitudes in different types of countries. More specifically, we focus on the …

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Job Vacancies in Colombia: 1976-2012

Álvarez, Andrés; Hofstetter, Marc - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013

Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not...

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