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  "title": "Belgium: Selected Issues—Regional Labor Markets in Belgium",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, March 13, 2002",
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  "summary": "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.",
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      "heading": "Summary and purpose",
      "content": "- Analyzes the regional labor markets for Belgium.\n- Examines labor market performance and the sources of economic disparities across regions.\n- Describes divergences in local labor markets and how labor markets adjust in Belgium and in its two main regions."
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      "content": "- Poor worker-job matching is identified as a contributor to economic disparities.\n- A compressed wage structure is identified as a contributor to economic disparities.\n- Low geographical mobility is identified as a contributor to economic disparities.\n- 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."
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      "content": "- Describes divergences in local labor markets across Belgian regions.\n- Offers potential explanations for regional disparities, including analysis of the relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional vacancy rates.\n- Discusses the mechanisms and patterns of labor market adjustment in Belgium and in its two main regions."
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      "content": "- Subjects: Employment, Labor, Labor force, Labor force participation, Labor markets, Unemployment rate\n- 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\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Belgium:Selected Issues-Regional Labor Markets - ISCR/02/43\n  - Belgium:Selected Issues-Regional Labor Markets - ISCR/02/43 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Belgium:Selected Issues-Regional Labor Markets - ISCR/02/43 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: March 13, 2002",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451803174.002",
    "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.",
    "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.",
    "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.",
    "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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