In a series of recent IMF papers, Bernal-Verdugo, Furceri and Guillaume (2012a,2012b), Crivelli, Furceri and Toujas-Bernaté (2012), and Furceri (2012) report finding strong evidence that more flexible labour markets are negatively associated with unemployment and positively associated with...

This paper examines the implications of the formation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 on Malaysia’s labour market. The discussion centres on the nature of the structural change that Malaysia has experienced, especially since the 1980s, and...

In the light of these concerns, the ILO, with support from technical cooperation funds secured under the ILO-Korean Government Partnership Programme launched a cross-country project entitled “Comparative analysis of employment policy implementation mechanisms across countries” in the fist...

This paper identifies and assesses the mechanisms used to formulate and to implement employment policy in Argentina. Specifically, it investigates the range of factors that have had a direct or indirect effect on determining the institutional organization surrounding such employment policy...

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The paper discusses employment policies in South Africa and their implementation.

This paper discusses the employment policy mechanisms in the EU and the United Kingdom and Germany.