Towards a System of Multilateral Unit Labor Cost-Based Competitiveness Indicators for Advanced, Developing, and Transition Countries /

This paper attempts to extend the range of countries covered by the IMF's multilateral real exchange rate indexes based on relative unit labor costs (REER-ULCs) in manufacturing. A data set was assembled that permits calculation of REER-ULCs for 23 newly industrialized, developing, and transiti...

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Главный автор: Turner, Anthony
Другие авторы: Golub, Stephen
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/151
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF
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