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

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 …

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. …

Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment … variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates … by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …

's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional …

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

problems in its labor market, reflected in its high long–term and youth unemployment. Our analysis of the drivers of labor …