Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within … particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment … provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on …

This paper develops a model of the process of reallocation of labor from the state sector to the private sector. When … 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 …

size to set up a quasi-experiment and data from the French labor force survey, we show that the law constrained the choice …

inflation, unemployment, government deficit, and GDP growth into a single indicator. In contrast to other indexes, the EPI does …

implementation of substantial structural reforms, in particular the authorities’ planned reforms in labor markets, the investment …