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Efficiency Frontier and Matching Process on the Labour Market: Evidence from Tunisia

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  • Anis Bou Abid
  • Imed Drine

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This paper studies the determinants of the inefficient functioning of the Tunisian labour market. The study takes advantage of recent developments in the stochastic frontier techniques and estimates the matching function for Tunisia using disaggregated data. We include control variables as determinants of matching efficiency and regional disparities. We confirm that the persistently high rate of unemployment is the result of not only excess labour supply but is also related to a shortfall between supply and demand, i.e. sector, location, qualification.

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Length: 19 pages
Date of creation: 2010
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Keywords: labour market; structural unemployment; technical efficiency; matching across regions; developing country;

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  • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
  • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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  1. Elzbieta Antczak & Ewa Galecka-Burdziak & Robert Pater, 2016. "Efficiency in spatially disaggregated labour market matching," Working Papers 2016-010, Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis.
  2. Kasrin Zein & Lang Guenter, 2013. "Estimating the Beveridge Curve of Egypt: An Econometric Study for the Period 2004 to 2010," Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, De Gruyter, vol. 8(3), pages 1-16, January.
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