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Guatemala; Statistical Annex
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825219
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Vietnam; Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825260
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Russian Federation; Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825556
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Danish for All? Balancing Flexibility with Security; The Flexicurity Model
Zhou, Jian-Ping - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825613
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Banks and Labor As Stakeholders; Impacton Economic Performance
Ueda, Kenichi; Claessens, Stijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825652
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Reforming Employment Protection Legislation in France
Zhou, Jian-Ping - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased … hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825839
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Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap in Slovakia
Konuki, Tetsuya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper estimates potential output and the output gap for Slovakia which enjoyed rapid growth with few signs of economic overheating in recent years. It applies two broad sets of approaches: conventional methods, represented by a statistical method and a production function approach; and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826202
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826222
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The Italian Labor Market; Recent Trends, Institutions, and Reform Options
Schindler, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826596
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Dissecting Saving Dynamics; Measuring Wealth, Precautionary, and Credit Effects
Carroll, Christopher; Sommer, Martin; Slacalek, Jiri - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate’s long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious ‘buffer stock’ model of optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242291