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The effect of a child on female work when family planning may fail

Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2011

information on participation, contraception and children. Key factors driving the importance of the effect are education, labor …

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The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.

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Macro Effects of Corporate Restructuring in Japan

Kim, Se-Jik - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper presents a framework for quantitatively evaluating the macroeconomic effects of corporate restructuring and applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of...

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United States; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper on the United States examines the effect of the structure of the mortgage market on real housing activity and housing prices. The market-based financial structure has reduced the volatility of mortgage lending. Changes in the structure of the mortgage market have...

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Business Cycle Accounting for Chile

Söderling, Ludvig; Simonovska, Ina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

neoclassical growth model with time-varying frictions (wedges). We analyze the relative importance of efficiency, labor, investment … the efficiency and labor wedges have had the greatest impact. We also compare our results with existing studies on …

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Obtstacles to Faster Growth in Transition Economies; The Mongolian Case

Black, Stabley W. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

The obstacles to economic growth in Mongolia are modeled with a supply-side growth model calibrated to represent inefficient use of resources and intermediation. Progressive removal of inefficiencies over time by means of privatization of banks and industrial enterprises potentially leads to...

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Labor Market Discrimination in Lima, Peru: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2011

We analyze labor discrimination in Peru, a fast-growing country where much anecdotal evidence suggests the presence of …

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Banks and Labor As Stakeholders; Impacton Economic Performance

Ueda, Kenichi; Claessens, Stijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Traditionally, the impacts of the rights of financial institutions and workers on corporate performance have been analyzed independently. Yet, theory clearly indicates that the combination of relative powers of different stakeholders affects a firm overall performance. Using U.S. state level and...

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Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries; Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility

Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

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Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium

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

Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …

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