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"Short term economic responses to unemployment problems in the Arab Region" by Bchir, Mohamed Hedi, Taoufik Rajhi and Gisel Nauck Abstract Along with its major political and social aspects, the "Arab Spring" was mainly underpinned by the lack of employment opportunities, especially for youths. Deficiency in competitiveness due to failures in trade liberalization, in line with poor economic growth have ranked unemployment in the Arab region as being among the highest in the world. This situation was caused due to a complex combination of different factors. In essence, the demographic transition that occurred in the region and the economic transformations that have taken place in former centrally planned countries had created a strong pressure on the job market. The heart of the problem lies in the fact that while the labor demand is witnessing a rapid increase, the economy is unable to create enough jobs. Adding to that, job market rigidities do not allow recruiters to easily hire and fire workers. This reinforces a strong and well spotted mismatch between the demographic and economic structures in the Arab region. In evidence, The Arab Labor Organization (ALO) estimates that 20 million persons are currently unemployed in the region, and that the unemployment rate is growing at a fast pace. Other estimations show that the Arab Mediterranean Countries will need to create more than 1,500,000 additional jobs per year over the next 10 years in order to provide employment opportunities for new labor market entrants and to keep unemployment figures unchanged. Doing so requires the rates of economic growth to surpass those achieved in recent years. That is to say, reforms should be put in place in order to increase the labor content of growth and better transform economic growth into job opportunities. In this chapter we put forward an overall presentation of the main characteristics and failures of the job market in the Arab region, covering the supply side, the demand side, and the structure of the job market. |
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- Labor market issues - Migration - Africa (North) - Asia (East) |
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