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 …

Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China … rapid technological progress. At the same time, the share of labor in national income decreased in most advanced countries …. This paper uses a labor share equation derived from a translog revenue function to estimate the contributions of …

This paper analyzes the determinants of labor market performance in Algeria. When the model is estimated with panel … data on a sample of MENA and transition countries for 1995- 2005, the results suggest that lower growth in labor … shocks have helped Algeria reduce the differential. Labor market rigidities and labor taxation do not seem to explain why …

This study seeks to explain economic growth differences in an aggregate production function framework, where labor … reallocation from agriculture to modern sectors influences labor efficiency growth. The econometric analysis uses a panel of 65 … countries over 1960-90. The results highlight: (a) the differences in labor reallocation impact on growth, controlled for using …

To understand better Canada's smooth reallocation of labor in response to the recent commodity price boom, but …. Overall, it finds that while Canada's labor market efficiency seems comparable to that of the United States, product market …

This paper proposes an ex ante evaluation of the effects of new labor contracts such as the "Contrat Nouvelle Embauche … 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. …

Using the IMF's Global Economic Model, calibrated to the European Union, the effects of reform in product and labor … reform takes place elsewhere; conversely, spillovers of reform elsewhere are limited. Labor and services market reforms have …

flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of financial crises is less pronounced but more persistent in countries … with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long …-term unemployment in the medium term. Conversely, large upfront, or gradual but significant, comprehensive labor market policies have a …