New Employment In Post-1990s Algeria: Are Rapidly Added Jobs Positively Affecting Economic Recovery?
Date of Award
January 2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Economics & Finance
First Advisor
Chih Ming Tan
Abstract
An apparent labor recovery success story since the turn of the century has been the reduction of Algeria’s post-war high unemployment rate. However, there are reasons to doubt the effectiveness of government programs that induced the adding of large totals of short-term, low-paying jobs, particularly following new labor legislation in December 2004. By nature, this added employment has not been genuine permanent work for the educated that might be associated with labor productivity and economic growth. We use dynamic panel models with Arellano-Bond estimators by the generalized method of moments to suggest that Algeria has not exhibited the expected positive economic growth associated with its employment growth. We then use interrupted time series regressions to illustrate the behavior of the economy after 2004 and find significant negative level changes in both GDP growth and productivity that are not exhibited by a control group of nations.
Recommended Citation
Troyer, Adrian, "New Employment In Post-1990s Algeria: Are Rapidly Added Jobs Positively Affecting Economic Recovery?" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 1974.
https://commons.und.edu/theses/1974