economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women's access to quality employment, a …

employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that …

on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

geography) on employment growth and poverty change in US counties before and after the Great Recession. It finds that the … particular, this measure is associated with employment growth in under-performing counties suggesting that removing barriers to …

policy insights. This paper first describes key employment trends in India by gender. Then the potential determinants of … relate to infrastructure, access to finance, labour laws and rural employment programmes. This Working Paper relates to the …