Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within … particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment … provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on …

This paper develops a model of the process of reallocation of labor from the state sector to the private sector. When … growth is exogenously determined, we show that in the initial stages of transition unemployment will rise over time. After a … critical stage in the transition process, restructuring is accompanied by a decline in unemployment. When growth is …

size to set up a quasi-experiment and data from the French labor force survey, we show that the law constrained the choice …

Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China … rapid technological progress. At the same time, the share of labor in national income decreased in most advanced countries …. This paper uses a labor share equation derived from a translog revenue function to estimate the contributions of …

. At end-2004, the unemployment rate amounted to 12 percent, and about one-third of the labor force was considered …This Selected Issues paper examines conditions in Colombian labor markets, which present a big challenge to the country … underemployed. The paper reviews labor market developments leading up to the reforms. It examines structural issues in the labor …

evidence suggests that the negative impact of high labor adjustment costs on productivity is more intense for small- and medium …

labor market can coexist with a generous welfare system to achieve low unemployment. Using a panel of 19 countries over 1960 …-2002, the paper identifies the elements of the flexicurity model that may have contributed to the low unemployment rate. A … the financing aspect, the paper finds that effective implementation will depend on the initial unemployment level and …