. At end-2004, the unemployment rate amounted to 12 percent, and about one-third of the labor force was considered …

-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 …

Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such … relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the … extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different …

This paper examines the potential contribution of unemployment hysteresis theories to the understanding of the Belgian …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes unemployment and education in Namibia. Using the Afrobarometer Project survey data …, and unemployment. The paper finds that unemployment probabilities depend on the level of education. The paper also …

employment. The medium-term macroeconomic framework plan entails the involvement of both the private and public sectors. Human …