restrictions affects the outcome of the matching process and the natural rate of unemployment in Tunisia. The paper concludes that … the removal of firing restrictions is likely to produce a favorable but limited impact on unemployment in Tunisia. …

Unemployment has remained high in the Philippines, at almost twice the level of neighboring countries, despite … relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … unemployment declines were positively correlated with real GDP growth and, to a lesser extent, negatively with the real minimum …

particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment …

for interpreting trends in wage shares, capital-labor ratios, and aggregate unemployment. …

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 … is determined by the level of human capital in the private sector and the rate of unemployment. The effects of various …