equitable and employment-generating social policies in National Development Strategies. This Policy Note has been developed in …

This paper examines gender equality in three important aspects including education, health care and employment in … more likely than men in using outpatient and inpatient health care services. However, for people above 14 years old, men … employment, and their wage is lower than men’s wage. Women have to do more housework than men even after the working hours for …

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 …

import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …

This paper explores the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages over a period 1993-2006, a …, the paper shows that employment has increased across all manufacturing industries. Data from Egypt’s labor market survey … increase in wages in manufacturing industries though the role of export orientation in influencing poor wages has not been …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …

economy in the middle of 2008. Crisis affects negatively almost all the fields of human life like development, employment …

sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring … changes have focused on supporting family-friendly employment for both men and women, including improvements in childcare …