TY  - BOOK
AU  - Furceri,Davide
AU  - Crivelli,Ernesto
AU  - Furceri,Davide
AU  - Toujas-Bernate,Joël
TI  - Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 147550568X :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
KW  - imf
KW  - Employment and Investment: Other
KW  - Employment Elasticities
KW  - Labor Market Policies
KW  - Labor Market
KW  - Macroeconomics: Consumption
KW  - Australia
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - China, People's Republic of
KW  - Guinea-Bissau
KW  - New Zealand
N2  - 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
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