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Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility; Evidence From Brazil

Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Even though institutions are created to protect workers, they may interfere with labor market functioning, raise unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the institutional changes introduced by the 1988...

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The Unbearable Stability of the German Wage Structure; Evidence and Interpretation

Prasad, Eswar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

sharp declines in employment rates for unskilled workers. The microeconomic evidence is shown to have important implications … skill groups. Empirical evidence suggests that this stability is attributable to institutional factors rather than market …

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Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country

Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration...

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Why is Unemployment High in the Philippines?

Brooks, Ray - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … rapid population growth and increased labor force participation. This paper shows that Philippine employment growth and …

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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,...

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Search in the Labor Market Under Imperfectly Insurable Income Risk

Roca, Mauro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model …

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Structural Reforms and Regional Convergence

Spilimbergo, Antonio; Che, Natasha Xingyuan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Which structural reforms affect the speed the regional convergence within a country? We found that domestic financial development, trade/current account openness, better institutional infrastructure, and selected labor market reforms facilitate regional convergence. However, these reforms have...

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Allocating Business Income between Capital and Labor under a Dual Income Tax; The Case of Iceland

Matheson, Thornton; Kollbeins, Pall - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

In contrast to most Scandinavian countries, Iceland allocates the income of closely held businesses (CHBs) between capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.Â This paperÂ contrasts the relative tax burdens of the current...

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Labor Tax Cuts and Employment: A General Equilibrium Approach for France

Espinoza, Raphael A.; Ruiz, Esther Pérez - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

elastic around the minimum wage for small changes in employment. The model is calibrated for France and used to estimate the … output and employment effects induced by two recent tax reforms: the Crédit d’Impôt pour la Compétitivité et l’Emploi (CICE … from demand side effects, the results should be interpreted as providing estimates of the effect of tax measures on …

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Privatization in East Germany; A Survey of Current Issues

Bös, Dieter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

This paper deals with the privatization, restructuring, and liquidation of East German industrial firms. A partnership model is suggested for privatization where the Government’s property trust (Treuhandanstait (THA)) is made a silent partner of the private investors. The application of a...

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