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  "title": "How Does Employment Protection Legislation Affect Unemployment in Tunisia? A Search Equilibrium Approach",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, May 1, 2005",
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      "content": "- The 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.\n- Conclusion: the removal of firing restrictions is likely to produce a favorable but limited impact on unemployment in Tunisia."
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      "content": "- Methodology: use of a search matching model with firing restrictions to study effects on matching outcomes and equilibrium unemployment.\n- Key conclusion: firing restrictions have an effect on the matching process and the natural rate of unemployment, but eliminating those restrictions yields only a limited reduction in unemployment in Tunisia."
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    "Authors: Domenico Fanizza, Taline Koranchelian",
    "Published: May 1, 2005",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451861112.001",
    "The 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.",
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