The effects of IMF conditional programs on the unemployment rate

Chletsos, Michael; Σίντος, Ανδρέας

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2022.102272

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“…For the implementation of fiscal decentralization to run effectively and efficiently, according (Siburian, 2022) It takes the active role of the community to supervise the utilization of resources by the regional government because regular supervision is needed to maintain the performance of local governments in providing public goods efficiently. (Chletsos & Sintos, 2022) Unemployment will have an impact on four policies: deregulation of the labor market, reforms requiring privatization, external reforms, and fiscal policy reforms that limit government spending. (Hasna & Novitasari, 2018) Every local government will try to finance government spending, one of which is to reduce the unemployment rate through its local government policies because the best policy, one of which is to move jobs to areas with high unemployment rates.…”

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The Link between Fiscal Decentralization and Unemployment Evidence from Indonesia

Maryanti

Handra

Yonnedi

2022

AIJBS

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The purpose of this study is to see the relationship between fiscal decentralization and unemployment in Indonesia, in this study uses panel data from 2017-2021. Where the results show that fiscal decentralization has a relationship with unemployment, but on the other hand, the level of civility and regional dependence to reduce unemployment has a negative impact, but the allocation of APBD funds is by existing regulations but still needs supervision from the central government and the area itself. Each region should seek to increase investment to reduce unemployment so that it can create jobs.

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The Link between Fiscal Decentralization and Unemployment Evidence from Indonesia

Maryanti

Handra

Yonnedi

2022

AIJBS

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The unintended consequences of IMF programs: Women left behind in the labor market

Kern,

Reinsberg,

Lee

2024

Rev Int Organ

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Despite societal progress toward achieving gender equality, women remain disadvantaged across all walks of life. We examine how pressures by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for austerity and liberalization policies affect women’s economic empowerment in developing countries. Focusing on labor market outcomes, we expect that IMF programs increase the gender unemployment gap. This effect will hold regardless of existing societal gender norms, reflecting that women work in less ‘crisis-proof’ jobs. In contrast, we believe that prevailing societal gender norms will adversely impact women’s ability to remain in the labor force, resulting in widening gender labor force participation gaps. Relying on a dataset covering 128 developing countries between 1992 and 2018, we confirm these expectations. Our findings underscore how, during economically turbulent times, policy demands of the Fund can amplify existing gender inequalities.

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IMF Lending

Abouharb,

Reinsberg

2023

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This Element argues that governments allocate adjustment burdens strategically to protect their supporters, imposing adjustment costs upon the supporters of their opponents, who then protest in response. Using large-N micro-level survey data from three world regions and a global survey, it discusses the local political economy of International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending. It finds that opposition supporters in countries under IMF structural adjustment programs (SAP) are more likely to report that the IMF SAP increased economic hardships than government supporters and countries without IMF exposure. In addition, it finds that partisan gaps in IMF SAP evaluations widen in IMF program countries with an above-median number of conditions, suggesting that opposition supporters face heavier adjustment burdens, and that opposition supporters who think SAPs made their lives worse are more likely to protest.

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The effects of IMF conditional programs on the unemployment rate

Cited by 4 publications

References 110 publications

The Link between Fiscal Decentralization and Unemployment Evidence from Indonesia

The Link between Fiscal Decentralization and Unemployment Evidence from Indonesia

The unintended consequences of IMF programs: Women left behind in the labor market

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