'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 …

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 …

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. …

relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the …Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such … extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different …