We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … datasets for a large cross-sector of developing and advanced countries.  Regressions of either private-sector employment rates … or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out.  This means that high rates …

.  Investment rises robustly soon after the news arrives, while GDP does not increase until after 5 years.  Employment rates fall …

employment declined. The latter has raised doubt regarding desirability of policy reforms.This paper provides an explanation of … the employment decline that sheds light on the manner in which product market reforms have impacted upon the labour market. …

I examine recent changes in labour markets and employment practices in Japan. I find little evidence that Japan is …

conclusions of the literature survey are indecisive. Conclusions about the efficacy of worksharing as an employment enhancing … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …

vector autoregressive Markov-switching model is found to be a congruent representation of post-war US employment and output … data. In this model some parameters change according to the phase of the business cycle which effects employment and output … simultaneously. The long run dynamics are characterized by a cointegrating vector including employment, output and a trend as a proxy …

paper is to analyze the nature of employment being created in the different sub-sectors of services, relative to the … industrial sector.  The nature of employment is defined to include educational requirements and quality, where the latter …' employers.  Second, service sub-sectors with low educational requirements have low overall quality of employment, and vice …