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  "title": "Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, August 1, 2002",
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  "summary": "Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment provinces.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within particular demographic groups.\n- These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment provinces.\n- Using a structural VAR, it is shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run.\n- After the short-run adjustment is over, there is less labor migration in Belgium than in the United States or Europe, corroborating the perception that Belgians move \"too little.\""
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      "heading": "Key Findings and Analysis",
      "content": "- Widening regional discrepancies:\n  - Discrepancies have increased over the last two decades.\n  - The widening is more pronounced within particular demographic groups.\n- Matching and mismatch:\n  - Worse matching of people to jobs in high-unemployment provinces largely accounts for the developments.\n  - The term “mismatch problem” appears among keywords describing the study focus.\n- Dynamics from structural VAR:\n  - Labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on employment growth.\n  - By contrast, in the United States initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run.\n- Migration and adjustment:\n  - After short-run adjustment is over, there is less labor migration in Belgium than in the United States or Europe.\n  - This pattern supports the perception that Belgians move \"too little.\""
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      "heading": "Subjects and Keywords",
      "content": "- Subjects:\n  - Employment, Labor, Labor force, Labor force participation, Labor markets, Unemployment rate\n- Keywords:\n  - divergences, dynamics, Employment, employment growth, employment response, Europe, geography, industry employment, job-skill mismatch, labor, Labor force, Labor force participation, Labor markets, mismatch problem, reductions in depressed areas, Unemployment rate, wage, wage differentiation, wage dispersion, wage reduction, WP\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Regional Labor Market Diparities in Belgium - WP/02/134\n  - Regional Labor Market Diparities in Belgium - WP/02/134 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Regional Labor Market Diparities in Belgium - WP/02/134 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/30/regional-labor-market-disparities-in-belgium-15979"
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    "Authors: Marcello M. Estevão",
    "Published: August 1, 2002",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451855616.001",
    "Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within particular demographic groups.",
    "These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment provinces.",
    "Using a structural VAR, it is shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run.",
    "After the short-run adjustment is over, there is less labor migration in Belgium than in the United States or Europe, corroborating the perception that Belgians move \"too little.\"",
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