productivity in Algeria is associated with higher unemployment than the sample average, though recent positive terms of trade … unemployment is higher in Algeria than in other countries. The results are robust to various panel econometric methods and …

by emphasizing the importance of market-friendly institutions in turning the challenge into opportunity. …

unemployment. The estimated unemployment gap is found to track well pressures on resource constraints. Moreover, the overall …

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 …

Despite strong economic growth, a "U"-curve unemployment phenomenon in Mauritius can be observed. Unemployment plunged … growth of higher-skilled sectors coupled with rigidities in the labor market seem to account for the observed unemployment … by reforming the pay-setting institutions. …

extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different … relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the …

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