Belgium: Selected Issues—Regional Labor Markets in Belgium
IMF Staff Country Reports, March 13, 2002
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- Belgium: Selected Issues—Regional Labor Markets in Belgium
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Bibliographic details
- Published: March 13, 2002
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451803174.002
Summary and purpose
- Analyzes the regional labor markets for Belgium.
- Examines labor market performance and the sources of economic disparities across regions.
- Describes divergences in local labor markets and how labor markets adjust in Belgium and in its two main regions.
Key findings and identified contributors to disparities
- Poor worker-job matching is identified as a contributor to economic disparities.
- A compressed wage structure is identified as a contributor to economic disparities.
- Low geographical mobility is identified as a contributor to economic disparities.
- The paper examines variations in the relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional vacancy rates as a potential explanation for divergences in local labor markets.
Analytical focus and methods
- Describes divergences in local labor markets across Belgian regions.
- Offers potential explanations for regional disparities, including analysis of the relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional vacancy rates.
- Discusses the mechanisms and patterns of labor market adjustment in Belgium and in its two main regions.
Subject classification and keywords
- Subjects: Employment, Labor, Labor force, Labor force participation, Labor markets, Unemployment rate
- Keywords: CR, demand shock, Employment, employment growth, Europe, ISCR, job-skill mismatch, labor force, Labor force participation, Labor markets, mismatch problem, Unemployment rate, wage, wage compression, wage reduction
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- Belgium:Selected Issues-Regional Labor Markets - ISCR/02/43