This Selected Issues paper analyzes the regional labor markets for Belgium. The paper examines labor market performance, and argues that a number of factors—poor worker-job matching, a compressed wage structure, and low geographical mobility—contribute to economic disparities. The paper...

Despite improvements in labor market performance over the past decade, owing in part to past reforms, Italy''s employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy''s institutional landscape and labor market trends from a cross-country...

The objective of this paper is to examine the efficiency of the public sector when it comes to labor market policy (LMP) in European Union (EU) countries. The primary aim is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of public services connected with the LMP from the viewpoint of the efficiency of...