; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participation rates, high and persistent informality, and, in some cases …, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region … examination of the labor market trends in the region in recent decades and assesses the role that labor demand and labor supply …

Despite the unusually strong labor market of the late 1990s, the labor market outcomes for UI recipients …

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 …

This paper develops a model of the process of reallocation of labor from the state sector to the private sector. When … growth is exogenously determined, we show that in the initial stages of transition unemployment will rise over time. After a … critical stage in the transition process, restructuring is accompanied by a decline in unemployment. When growth is …