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Wage Compression, Employment Restrictions and Unemployment : The Case of Mauritius
International Monetary Fund - 2004
Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such intervention often results in wage compression and restrictions on how firms use their workers. This paper investigates the impact of such interventions on the labor market conditions...
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Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times : A Practitioner's Guide
International Monetary Fund - 2005
methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high … wages, and thus, on the labor market and the real economy, were limited until 1998, but have been quite significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400692
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France: Selected Issues : Labor Market Developments and Wage Moderation in France in the 1990s
International Monetary Fund - 2001
The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The …. Microeconometric estimations provide evidence of an outward shift in the relationship between wages and unemployment that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407413
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Vanuatu : Background Paper
International Monetary Fund - 1996
This Background Paper on Vanuatu reviews the development of monetary control instruments in five small island economies in the South Pacific (Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Western Samoa) and draws some lessons from their experience. The paper highlights that, except Solomon Islands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397858
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Alternative Models of Wage Dispersion
International Monetary Fund - 2005
, we cannot get more than two wages. We explore several other models, including one combining ex ante and ex post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400958
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Equilibrium Wage Dispersion : An Example
International Monetary Fund - 2006
-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are … posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is when we get two wages, and which wages are actually posted. For an example with K … combination of posted reservation wages, depending on parameters. We also show how wages, profits, and unemployment depend on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402407
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A Noteon Terms of Trade Shocks and the Wage Gap
International Monetary Fund - 2010
Using Chilean data, we document that for resource-rich small open economies the effects of terms of trade shocks on the wage gap (between skilled and unskilled workers) depend on factor intensities in the non-tradable sector, following the model in Galiani, Heymann, and Magud (2010). For a...
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Honduras; 2005 Article IV Consultation, Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, Requests for Modification and Waiver of Perf...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This paper examines Honduras’s 2005 Article IV Consultation and Second Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. In the period 1960–2000, output growth in Honduras ranked among the lowest in the region. During the 1990s, when growth recovered in the rest of Central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825013
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Tonga; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Selected Issues paper assesses the fiscal risk impact of various events in Tonga and describes the challenges implied for fiscal management. The paper discusses that the Tongan government has made various efforts to limit the budgetary implications of the recent economic and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244131
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Tonga; 2008 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that Tonga’s economy has shown resilience in the aftermath of the November 2006 riots and is now on a path to recovery. The key factor underpinning this resilience has been private investment. Donor-supported government reconstruction loans are...
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