02241cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF019298 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781498313261 2617-6750 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Duval, Romain. Designing Labor Market Institutions in Emerging and Developing Economies : Evidence and Policy Options / Romain Duval, Prakash Loungani. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019. 1 online resource (58 pages) Staff Discussion Notes <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper discusses theoretical aspects and evidences related to designing labor market institutions in emerging market and developing economies. This note reviews the state of theory and evidence on the design of labor market institutions in a developing economy context and then reviews its consistency with actual labor market advice in a selected set of emerging and developing economies. The focus is mainly on three broad sets of institutions that matter for both workers' protection and labor market efficiency: employment protection, unemployment insurance and social assistance, minimum wages and collective bargaining. Text mining techniques are used to identify IMF recommendations in these areas in Article IV Reports for 30 emerging and frontier economies over 2005-2016. This note has provided a critical review of the literature on the design of labor market institutions in emerging and developing market economies, and benchmarked the advice featured in IMF recommendations for 30 emerging market and frontier economies against the tentative conclusions from the literature. Mode of access: Internet Loungani, Prakash. Staff Discussion Notes; Staff Discussion Notes ; No. 2019/004 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/006/2019/004/006.2019.issue-004-en.xml IMF e-Library