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Minimum Wages and Firm Employment: Evidence from China
Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123849
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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123865
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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oketch, Moses - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Technical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it. Internationally, it has always been a complex and controversial topic compared
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854451
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reducti
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854458
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John; Shimeles, Abebe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854479
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Youth in Tanzania.s urbanizing mining settlements: Prospecting a mineralized future
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a .mining take-off.. Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-in
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854481
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Intra-Firm Trade and Employment in US Manufacturing
Blanas, Sotiris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886831
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887014
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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation
Reicher, Claire - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887017