This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EUcountries, using micro data from the …

I study the role of company start-up costs for employment performance. The model is search equilibrium with a new … in equilibrium, career choice and job creation are jointly determined. Higher start-up costs reduce overall employment …

Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, anddepend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate amodel for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United … States,Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United StatesTFP growth explains the trend …

We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the "three worlds of welfare", Anglo …-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes …. Anglo-Saxon low-support policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer polilcies encourage more …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … offshoring has no effect on native employment in the aggregate, while the effect of immigration on native employment is positive …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …