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Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …

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Republic of Armenia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) has been developed for eradicating poverty in Armenia. It analyzes the poverty situation of Armenia, and evaluates the methodology and methodological issues. It discusses the PRSP goals, main policy directions, solution to poverty, and the reduction of...

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Danish for All? Balancing Flexibility with Security; The Flexicurity Model

Zhou, Jian-Ping - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

labor market can coexist with a generous welfare system to achieve low unemployment. Using a panel of 19 countries over 1960 …-2002, the paper identifies the elements of the flexicurity model that may have contributed to the low unemployment rate. A … the financing aspect, the paper finds that effective implementation will depend on the initial unemployment level and …

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Measuring a Roller Coaster; Evidenceon the Finnish Output Gap

Billmeier, Andreas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

The output gap-which measures the deviation of actual output from its potential-is frequently used as an indicator of slack in an economy. This paper estimates the Finnish output gap using various empirical methods. It evaluates these methods against economic history and each other by a...

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The Effects of Early Retirementon Youth Unemployment; The Case of Belgium

Pestieau, Pierre; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Jousten, Alain; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

elderly labor force participation and youth unemployment. From a theoretical point of view, there is no convincing argument …

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Labor Market Pooling

Blasio, Guido De; Addario, Sabrina Di - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

The paper provides an empirical investigation of labor market pooling. The analysis concentrates on Italian industrial districts and shows that there is scattered evidence of a widespread wage premium. In particular, there is no evidence of district differentials for the returns to seniority...

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Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country

Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

trap if unemployment lowers household wealth below the cost of skills acquisition. …

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Work Absence in Europe

Bonato, Leo; Lusinyan, Lusine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Work absence is an important part of the individual decision on actual working hours. This paper focuses on sickness absence in Europe and develops a stylized model where absence is part of the labor-leisure decision made by workers and the production decision made by profit-maximizing firms,...

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Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment …

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Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility; Evidence From Brazil

Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states …

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