high standard of social security for the unemployed. It provides details of an empirical analysis of unemployment …The paper discusses the flexicurity model, its key policy elements, and association with a low unemployment rate and a …

This study explores the effects of labor and product market deregulation on employment growth. Our empirical results … employment growth, including through sizable interaction effects. Based on these findings, the paper develops a theoretical …

increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between …

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 …

nation’s 2000-01 economic crisis. Higher growth could reduce unemployment and raise living standards toward European Union …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to … absorb the surplus labor into quality jobs while adjusting to World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. This paper estimates … in the private sector and more labor-intensive service industries which have generated the most jobs in recent years …

. At end-2004, the unemployment rate amounted to 12 percent, and about one-third of the labor force was considered …

self employment and the percentage of currency held outside the banking system. …