Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such …

Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the regional labor markets for Belgium. The paper examines labor market performance … rates. The paper also describes how labor markets adjust in Belgium and in its two main regions …

Belgium can cause a downward rigidity in real wages, given the multi-tier real wage bargaining process. Recent initiatives …

-sector employment and have helped raise standards of living. However, the growth model has involved costs: the public-sector wage bill … is relatively high, there is limited employment of nationals in the private sector, labor productivity has declined or …

This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China''s exportoriented growth model toward … employment and employment opportunities in the longer term, there could be employment losses in the short run as the economy … policies to cushion the employment impact in the transition, particularly in meeting the skills gap of associated with this …

The Belgian economy showed considerable progress through 2011 in terms of both growth and employment. However, the 2013 … benefit systems with the objective of raising the employment rate to 73 percent by 2020. …