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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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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 …

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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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Regional Economic Disparities in Australia

Ramakrishnan, Uma; Cerisola, Martin D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

unemployment rates in some states. Federal government transfers to households also appear to have adversely affected work … incentives in high unemployment states by limiting participation in the labor force. …

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Work Absence in Europe

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

production decision made by profit-maximizing firms, with insurance provisions and labor market institutions affecting the costs …

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Public Pension Reform: A Primer

Jousten, Alain - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in particular. A particular emphasis is put on...

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Why Are Women Working so Much More in Canada? An International Perspective

Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...

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Wage Compression, Employment Restrictions and Unemployment; The Case of Mauritius

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different … relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the …

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The Italian Labor Market; Recent Trends, Institutions, and Reform Options

Schindler, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Despite improvements in labor market performance over the past decade, owing in part to past reforms, Italy's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional landscape and labor market trends from a cross-country...

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