Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level …. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment … creation and the creation of new firms. Because most employment in low and middle income countries is in micro, small and …

fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …

the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives. …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be …

to survive the crisis. The first phase of the recession led to the largest loss of jobs since the oil crisis in Denmark … is still negative (Statistics Denmark, 2012). Consequently we present an assessment of factors that have been important …

employment declining by 2.5 percent between 2008q4 and 2009q4. Job and worker turnover rates both declined, signalling a …, 2012). The current paper documents the extent and composition of employment change between 2000 and 2011, focusing on the … and earnings level, the sensitivity of employment growth and labour market flows to aggregate employment fluctuations and …