This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment … countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The …

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

among either men or women. Neither increases in employment or labor market attachment in the year following a household job …'s response to a household shock will enable households to respond more quickly to adverse employment events and limit the long …

approaching the technological frontier, provided that labour market regulation is sufficiently tight. In the absence of employment …-Saxon countries would take more advantage of deregulation (i.e. increased dispersion of ownership in a context of deregulated labour …