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The Shortcomings of a Partial Release of Employment Protection Laws; The Case of the 2005 French Reform

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

the creation of 70,000 additional jobs in the long run, but at the cost of a slight deterioration in welfare. …

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Universal Health Coverage and the Challenge of Informal Employment: Lessons from Developing Countries

Bitran, Ricardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Along with their families, ISWs … expand health coverage are characterized by a common enrollment and financing pattern, starting with formal-sector workers … than that of formal workers and charging them a premium that is only a fraction of that charged to formal workers is a …

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Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment rates in the business sector in the 1990s, after controlling for many institutions, country-specific effects, and economic variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to...

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Reforming Employment Protection Legislation in France

Zhou, Jian-Ping - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

partial reform is inefficient: easing restrictions on temporary jobs fosters both job creation and job destruction, but strict …

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How Does Employment Protection Legislation Affect Unemployment in Tunisia? a Search Equilibrium Approach

Fanizza, Domenico; Koranchelian, Taline - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper applies a search matching model with firing restrictions to examine whether the existence of firing restrictions affects the outcome of the matching process and the natural rate of unemployment in Tunisia. The paper concludes that the removal of firing restrictions is likely to...

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Structural Transformation and the Volatility of Aggregate Output in OECD Countries

Ngouana, Constant Lonkeng - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper finds a negative relationship between the employment share of the service sector and the volatility of aggregate output in the OECDâ€”after controlling for the level of financial development. This result reflects volatility differentials across sectors: labor productivity is more...

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India's Pattern of Development; What Happened, What Follows?

Subramanian, Arvind; Rajan, Raghuram; Tokatlidis, Ioannis; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill-intensive rather than laborintensive manufacturing,...

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Effects of Globalizationon Labor's Share in National Income

Guscina, Anastasia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

The past two decades have seen a decline in labor's share of national income in several industrial countries. This paper analyzes the role of three factors in explaining movements in labor's share--factor-biased technological progress, openness to trade, and changes in employment...

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The Gender Implications of Public Sector Downsizing : The Reform Program of Vietnam

Rama, Martin - In: World Bank Research Observer 17 (2002) 2, pp. 167-190

reforms. First, although women's prospects of obtaining salaried jobs following displacement from state-owned enterprise … programs currently in place to help redundant workers reveal no evidence of strong gender bias. Fifth, severance packages based …

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Canadian Firm and Job Dynamics

Balakrishnan, Ravi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

To understand better Canada's smooth reallocation of labor in response to the recent commodity price boom, but seemingly poor productivity performance, this paper examines job and firm dynamics in Canada relative to the United States. Overall, it finds that while Canada's labor market efficiency...

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