TY - BOOK ID - 84542493 TI - Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium PY - 2002 SN - 1462343848 1452708851 1282032615 9786613796752 1451900805 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Labor KW - Employment KW - Unemployment KW - Wages KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - Labor Demand KW - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: General KW - Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition KW - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search KW - Demand and Supply of Labor: General KW - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Labor force participation KW - Unemployment rate KW - Labor markets KW - Labor force KW - Labor market KW - Economic theory KW - Belgium KW - Income economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84542493 AB - 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 also 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.". ER -