's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional …

Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased … hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent … partial reform is inefficient: easing restrictions on temporary jobs fosters both job creation and job destruction, but strict …

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 …

labor market can coexist with a generous welfare system to achieve low unemployment. Using a panel of 19 countries over 1960 …-2002, the paper identifies the elements of the flexicurity model that may have contributed to the low unemployment rate. A … the financing aspect, the paper finds that effective implementation will depend on the initial unemployment level and …

particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to … absorb the surplus labor into quality jobs while adjusting to World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. This paper estimates … in the private sector and more labor-intensive service industries which have generated the most jobs in recent years …

Unemployment pressures among nationals are emerging in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC). 2 … unemployment pressures while striking a balance between maintaining a liberal foreign labor policy and a reasonable level of …

flexibility with state-provided unemployment insurance and can be applied only to new entrants in the market without affecting the …

, we simulate the effects of this reform on unemployment, employment, and welfare. We estimate that the CNE will lead to … countries or reforms of employment protection laws. Using a model that captures the characteristics of the French labor market … the creation of 70,000 additional jobs in the long run, but at the cost of a slight deterioration in welfare. …

.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that supports that changes in state-level unemployment rates are linked … causality going from mismatches and housing conditions to unemployment rates. The numerical estimates imply that the structural … unemployment rate in 2010 was about 1¾ percentage points higher than before the onset of the housing market meltdown at end-2006 …