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Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis

By Davide Furceri, Ernesto Crivelli, Joël Toujas-Bernate

August 1, 2012

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Davide Furceri, Ernesto Crivelli, and Joël Toujas-Bernate. Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the period 1991 - 2009, the results suggest that structural policies aimed at increasing labor and product market flexibility and reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also suggest that in order to maximize the positive impact on the responsiveness of employment to economic activity, structural policies have to be complemented with macroeconomic policies aimed at increasing macroeconomic stability.

Subject: Commodity markets, Employment, Financial markets, Labor, Labor market policy, Labor markets, Macrostructural analysis, Structural policies

Keywords: Australia and New Zealand, Commodity markets, East Africa, Employment, Employment elasticities, Employment elasticity, Employment intensity, Employment-GDP elasticity, Employment-output elasticity, Labor market policy, Labor markets, Middle East, North Africa, Product market flexibility, Product market policy, Reforms, Structural policies, Unemployment, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    32

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2012/218

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2012218

  • ISBN:

    9781475505689

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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