Generating more and better quality jobs with higher productivity probably constitutes the most important challenge the Maghreb countries will face over the next decade. Despite relatively high and sustained economic growth since 2004, employment creation has been insufficient to significantly...

1 Introduction -- I Theoretical Framework: Institutions and the Labor Market -- 2 A Comparison of Labor Market Equilibria Under Different Institutional Organizations -- II Observed Dislocation: International Comparisons -- 3 Wage Flexibility in the United States and Japan -- 4 The Impact of...