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How Does Employment Protection Legislation Affect Unemployment in Tunisia? A Search Equilibrium Approach

By Domenico Fanizza, Taline Koranchelian

May 1, 2005

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Domenico Fanizza, and Taline Koranchelian. How Does Employment Protection Legislation Affect Unemployment in Tunisia? A Search Equilibrium Approach, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed December 10, 2024
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Summary

This paper applies a search matching model with firing restrictions to examine whether the existence of firing 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.

Subject: Employment protection, Job creation, Labor markets, Productivity, Unemployment

Keywords: Equilibrium unemployment, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    17

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2005/092

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2005092

  • ISBN:

    9781451861112

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941