IMF Working Papers

Labor Market Representation in Quantitative Macroeconomic Models for Developing Countries: An Application to Cote D'Ivoire

By Vincent Bodart, Jean Le Dem

August 1, 1995

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Vincent Bodart, and Jean Le Dem. Labor Market Representation in Quantitative Macroeconomic Models for Developing Countries: An Application to Cote D'Ivoire, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed September 18, 2024
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Summary

This paper presents a quantitative macroeconomic model that accounts for key features of the labor market in developing countries. Primarily inspired by Côte d’Ivoire, the model contrasts a formal urban sector, where wages are rigidly fixed and employment is submitted to firms profit-seeking behavior, to urban and rural informal sectors, where wages are flexible and employment is affected by fluctuations in formal sector employment. Dynamic simulations assess the impact on key macroeconomic variables of a terms of trade improvement, a public wage decrease, and an exchange rate adjustment, highlighting the roles of rural-urban migrations and capital accumulation in the informal urban sector.

Subject: Consumption, Labor, Labor force, Labor markets, National accounts, Private consumption, Wages

Keywords: Consumption, First-year price impact, GDP growth effect, Goods market, Gross domestic product, Growth effect, Import term, Investment goods, Labor force, Labor market, Manufactured goods, Nominal wage, Output price, Private consumption, Private sector, Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsistence goods, Supply response, Term exp, Wage rate, Wages, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    43

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1995/087

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0871995

  • ISBN:

    9781451850963

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 43, No. 2, June 1996.

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