Labor and Product Market Reforms in Advanced Economies : Fiscal Costs, Gains, and Support /

Product and labor market reforms are needed to lift persistently sluggish growth in advanced economies. But reforms have progressed slowly because of concerns about their distributive and short-term economic effects. Our analysis, based on new empirical and numerical analysis and country case-studie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banerji, Angana
Other Authors: Crispolti, Valerio, Dabla-Norris, Era, Duval, Romain
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:Staff Discussion Notes; Staff Discussion Notes ; No. 2017/003
Online Access:Full text available on IMF