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, to raise output and employment significantly while reducing the price level. Additional pension reforms could further … increase employment, boost economic growth, and improve public finances, as could improved expenditure efficiency, thereby …
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This Selected Issues paper examines conditions in Colombian labor markets, which present a big challenge to the country. At end-2004, the unemployment rate amounted to 12 percent, and about one-third of the labor force was considered underemployed. The paper reviews labor market developments...
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The Selected Issues paper analyzes how fast Ireland will grow in the future. The approach of this paper is to consider the catch-up in labor utilization productivity and use independent demographic projections and other considerations to make reasonable assumptions about labor productivity and...
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governance. It reviews the employment issues and trends in the budget framework, and also analyzes the implementation, monitoring …
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-size companies and depends on the nature of wage-bargaining systems. …
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The Danish flexicurity model has attracted attention among policymakers in Europe, because it suggests that a flexible 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...
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affected by bank branch deregulation and employment protection occurring over 1972-1993. We find that financial liberalization …, employment protection promotes those industries that are more knowledge intensive, while the effect of financial liberalization … an efficiency channel, better reallocating resources across sectors, while employment protection creates higher …
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In this paper, we describe the changes of (early) retirement programs over time and study the link between trends in elderly labor force participation and youth unemployment. From a theoretical point of view, there is no convincing argument that the idea of a lump-of-labor should hold. Our...
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capita income, output, and employment levels across the country's states and territories. This paper explores the role of …
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crisis of 1999-2002 with the aim of (1) identifying the most vulnerable households, (2) investigating whether employment in … did not serve to decrease their vulnerability. A significant source of vulnerability was linked to changes in employment …
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