extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different …Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such … of such interventions on the labor market conditions faced by low-skill workers in Mauritius. It finds that even …

This paper examines the potential contribution of unemployment hysteresis theories to the understanding of the Belgian … labor market. It estimates models of wage determination using aggregate and firm-level panel data. Two main conclusions …, including the introduction of a competitiveness norm for indexation, and labor market programs aimed at the long-term unemployed …

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 …

This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the … various tax rates lead to lower budget deficits in the long run, as a result of an expanding tax base and lower unemployment …