The aim of this paper is to analyze unemployment and labor market developments in Algeria and assess the factors that … improvement in labor market conditions in Algeria would be key in reducing unemployment both in the short- and medium-term. … may hamper employment creation. The results of the paper suggest that the relative low output-employment elasticities and …

The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …

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 …This paper analyzes the determinants of labor market performance in Algeria. When the model is estimated with panel …

reducing employment protection of permanent workers. Substantially reforming the collective bargaining system and reducing the …The Spanish labor market is not working: the unemployment rate is structurally very high; wages are not very responsive … to labor market conditions, causing a high cyclicality of unemployment; and the labor market is highly dual. Compared …

.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 …

Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment … variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates … by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …

, 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 …

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 …

unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …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 …

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. …