How Bad Is Unemployment in Tunisia? Assessing Labor Market Efficiency in a Developing Country

Rama, Martín

doi:10.1093/wbro/13.1.59

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“…This is because the survey instruments that were used to measure unemployment over the last few decades did not use comparable questions to assess the willingness to work. An assessment of comparable estimates actually reveals a steady, if slow, decline in the unemployment rate since the 1980s (Rama, 1998).…”

Section: Unemploymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries

Rama¹

2003

Policy Research Working Papers

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Section: Unemploymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries

Rama¹

2003

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…where σ C is given by (35). The transportation policy directly affect job creation θ C * (see (36)) since it becomes cheaper to hire workers (urban wages decrease because of lower spatial compensation) and rural-urban migration L R * (see (38)) since it is cheaper to live in cities (lower housing prices and commuting costs).…”

Section: Transportation Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, there are large evidence showing that cities in developing countries are characterized by important search frictions due to coordination failures, mismatch costs and lack of information about jobs (see, e.g., Rama, 1998;Bosch et al, 2007;Bosch and Maloney, 2008). Second, an explicit land/housing market should be incorporated in the city to study the relationship between rural-urban migration and the land market.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Search, migration, and urban land use: The case of transportation policies

Zénou

2011

Journal of Development Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public transport system in the city, an entry-cost policy that encourages investment in the city and a restricting-migration policy that imposes some costs on migrants. We show that all these policies can increase urban employment but the transportation policy has much more drastic effects. This is because a decrease in commuting costs has both a direct positive effect on land rents, which discourages migrants to move to the city, and a direct negative effect on urban wages, which reduces job creation and thus migration. When these two effects are combined with search frictions, the interactions between the land and the labor markets have amplifying positive effects on urban employment. Thus, improving the transport infrastructure in cities can increase urban employment despite the induced migration from rural areas. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: D83, J61, O18, R14

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“…, where L stands for the number of employed workers, ur the economywide unemployment rate, j α is the proportion of the total unemployed in group j (where j designates qualified or low qualified workers, see Rama, 1998), and where ji β is the proportion of workers of category i in group j. Table 2 Optimal activity levels, optimal net exports and observed net exports (selected years).…”

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Restructuring and Economic Performance: The Experience of the Tunisian Economy

Ghali

Mohnen

2002

SSRN Journal

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How Bad Is Unemployment in Tunisia? Assessing Labor Market Efficiency in a Developing Country

Cited by 38 publications

References 10 publications

Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries

Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries

Search, migration, and urban land use: The case of transportation policies

Restructuring and Economic Performance: The Experience of the Tunisian Economy

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