Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/233875 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 837
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
This study examines the efficiency and distributional effects of selected labor market institutions in Albania, a rather underresearched country. An initial overview of the postcommunist developments articulates why Albania has the poorest labor market performance among other South East European countries. Using a set of mixed qualitative and descriptive quantitative methods we find evidence of inefficient segmental effects and a predatory structure of labor market institutions which noticeably diverge from the efficient institutions' point of reference. The institutional/welfare regime at the cross-national level points out at a relationship between the labor market institutional framework and labor market performance, as measured by unemployment. At the country level, a disproportional relationship between the "de jure" labor market regulation and unemployment is identified, which is also moderated by the interaction between labor market and economic institutions.
Subjects: 
Albania
Labor market regulation
Welfare regime
Unemployment
Labor market institutions
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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