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 …

, we simulate the effects of this reform on unemployment, employment, and welfare. We estimate that the CNE will lead to …

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. …

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

We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …

with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long … impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with … flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of financial crises is less pronounced but more persistent in countries …

We propose a theory of low-frequency movements in unemployment based on asymmetric real wage rigidities. The theory … generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with (i) a fall in long-run productivity growth and (ii) a rise …-run unemployment over the 1980s and its rise during the late 2000s. …