TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Haouas, Ilham
AU  - Yagoubi, Mahmoud
AU  - Heshmati, Almas
        TI  - Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
        PY  - 2003/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 687
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp687
        AB  - This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971–96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment parameter is specified in terms of factors affecting the speed of adjustment. Industries are assumed to adjust their labour inputs towards a desired level of labour-use. A translog labour requirement function is specified in terms of observable variables and is used to model the desired level of labour-use. The labour requirement is specified to be function of wages, output, quasi-fixed
capital stock and technology. The empirical results show that in the long run, employment demand responds greatest to value-added, followed by capital stock changes, and least by
wages. The speed of adjustment in employment and the degree of labour-use efficiency show large variations among the sectors and over time.
        KW  - dynamics
KW  - employment
KW  - labour-use efficiency
KW  - panel data
KW  - Tunisia
KW  - speed of adjustment
KW  - technical change
        ER  -