Unemployment Hysteresis, Wage Determination, and Labor Market Flexibility : The Case of Belgium.

This paper examines the potential contribution of unemployment hysteresis theories to the understanding of the Belgian labor market. It estimates models of wage determination using aggregate and firm-level panel data. Two main conclusions emerge: (i) the long-term unemployed do not exert a negative...

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Körperschaft: International Monetary Fund
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/150
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF