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The labor market integration of migrants in Europe : new evidence from micro data

Ho, Giang; Turk Ariss, Rima - 2018

This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates …

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Labor Market Institutions and Flexibility in Italy : A Critical Evaluation and Some International Comparisons

Demekas, Dimitri G. - 1994

The paper surveys three broad categories of labor market institutions in Italy: employment protection legislation …

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Labor market reforms and earnings dynamics : the Italian case

Hoffmann, Eran B.; Malacrino, Davide; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2021

administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and … contributed to the slowdown in labor productivity in Italy by delaying human capital accumulation (in the form of general and firm …

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Structural reforms and labor reallocation : a cross-country analysis

ElFayoumi, Khalid; Ndoye Faye, Anta; Nadeem, Sanaa; … - 2018

Institutional and market frictions impose costs on the reallocation of labor from low to high productivity sectors, leading to suboptimal allocations and a loss in aggregate labor productivity. Using cross-country sector-level data, we use a dynamic panel error correction model to compute the...

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EMU Challenges European Labor Markets

Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 1999

This paper discusses the challenges that European Monetary Union (EMU) poses for European labor markets, emphasizing in particular the regional dimension of the European unemployment problem. The authors argue that the inability of labor markets to adjust to shocks is largely a regional problem...

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Can Institutional Reform Reduce Job Destruction and Unemployment Duration? : Yes it Can

Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2012

along the curve reveals its preferences over the destruction-duration mix, while its distance from the origin indicates the …

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Understanding the use of long-term finance in developing economies

Martínez Pería, María Soledad; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2017

This short paper reviews recent literature on the use of long-term finance in developing economies (relative to advanced ones) to identify where long-term financing occurs, and what role different financial intermediaries and markets play in extending this type of financing. Although banks are...

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In search of lost time : examining the duration of sudden stops in capital flows

David, Antonio C.; Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Soares - 2019

This paper investigates what factors affect the duration of sudden stops in capital flows using quarterly data for a … sudden stop state by between 50 to 80 percent. Flexible exchange rate regimes significantly shorten the duration of output … decelerations following sudden stops by over 30 percent. Positive variations in terms of trade also abbreviate the duration of …

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Women are key for future growth : evidence from Canada

Petersson, Bengt; Mariscal, Rodrigo; Ishi, Kotaro - 2017

How important are female workers for economic growth? This paper presents empirical evidence that an increase in female labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian provinces over 1990-2015, we found that a 1 percentage point...

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Inequality overhang

Grigoli, Francesco; Robles, Adrian - 2017

The linearity of the relationship between income inequality and economic development has been long questioned. While theory provides arguments for which the shape of relationship may be positive for low levels of inequality and negative for high ones, most of the empirical literature assumes a...

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