and examine the effectiveness of three employment policies in this context: (i) a weakening of workers’ position in wage …) training subsidies. We show that the employment effects of these policies depend crucially on whether low-productivity traps …

the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a multi-sector intertemporal general equilibrium model with endogenous …-term structural effects can indeed impede Asian-style economic transformation in Ghana (and other resource rich countries). We also …

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the … 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as … households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both increased migration and more local non-farm employment. These …

privatization of public companies impact on the distribution of employment and wages between the formal and the informal sector. We …

This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War … West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …