improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition …

of the four potential drivers of this puzzle, namely competition, education, labour market flexibility and the size of …

regulation to strengthen competition could help expand formal sector employment. Changes in municipal laws and regulations to … ease migration and facilitate informal employment are also likely to be particularly important. Improving the … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …

empirically-proven to help regain employment; this will require systematic and rigorous evaluation of labour-market programmes and …

and that a tertiary qualification improves an individual’s prospects of employment. While the premium for matric and …

proxies for education quality. We find that the employment and earnings premiums to education level are robust to the … significant relationship is found between the school quality measures and employment.<P>This Working Paper relates to the 2013 …

nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace …. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … ends of the age spectrum, with some marked regional differences. The female employment rate is especially low, in part due …