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  "title": "Mauritius: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, October 14, 2003",
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  "summary": "The review outlines a simple analytical model to explain the unemployment puzzle, especially the U-curve phenomenon. It analyzes the central institutional imperfections that characterize the existing Mauritian labor market and suggests possible reforms.",
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      "heading": "Analytical model of unemployment and main findings",
      "content": "- Outlines a simple analytical model to explain the unemployment puzzle, especially the U-curve phenomenon.\n- Focuses on explaining the persistence and shape of unemployment (U-curve) in Mauritius.\n- Emphasizes the role of skill composition and labor market frictions in generating unemployment patterns."
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      "heading": "Institutional imperfections and policy recommendations",
      "content": "- Analyzes central institutional imperfections that characterize the existing Mauritian labor market.\n- Suggests possible reforms to address market rigidities and improve labor outcomes.\n- Policy directions implied by the review include reforms related to:\n  - collective bargaining arrangements,\n  - labor market institutions,\n  - measures to enhance job creation and adjust the skill premium,\n  - interventions to improve outcomes for unskilled workers and skilled labor alignment."
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      "heading": "IMF projections, estimates, and data reviewed",
      "content": "- Reviews IMF projections and estimates on:\n  - consolidated monetary survey,\n  - summary accounts of the Bank of Mauritius,\n  - commercial banks and offshore banks,\n  - balance of payments,\n  - summary of the tax systems and government finances,\n  - sugar cultivation, yields and output,\n  - real growth rates of expenditure on gross domestic product,\n  - gross domestic product real growth rates by industrial origin and at current prices, 1998–2002,\n  - and additional related macroeconomic and sectoral indicators."
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      "content": "- Publication date: October 14, 2003\n- Pages: 83\n- Volume: 2003\n- Issue: 320\n- Series: Country Report No. 2003/320\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827774.002\n- Stock No: 1MUSEA0022003\n- ISBN: 9781451827774\n- ISSN: 1934-7685"
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      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subjects: Labor, Labor force, Labor market institutions, Skilled labor, Unemployment, Wages\n- Keywords: capital stock, collective bargaining, CR, Europe, ISCR, job creation, Labor force, labor market, Labor market institutions, production function, skill premium, Skilled labor, Unemployment, unemployment rate, unskilled worker, Wages\n\nSource: IMF Staff Country Reports — Mauritius: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix (October 14, 2003).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Mauritius: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix - ISCR/03/320\n  - Mauritius: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix - ISCR/03/320 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Mauritius: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix - ISCR/03/320 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Focuses on explaining the persistence and shape of unemployment (U-curve) in Mauritius.",
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