away from existing jobs is another key determinant of equilibrium, because a worker with an existing job has a better … their employers, a sign of wage posting. We find that another third bargained over pay before accepting their current jobs …. And about 40 percent of workers could have remained on their earlier jobs at the time they accepted their current jobs. …

with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes …

more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude …

Unskilled workers in low productivity jobs typically experience higher labour turnover. This paper shows how this … recruiting for low productivity jobs. This generates more separations and higher turnover at the bottom than at the top of the … jobs’ distribution. The analysis of a unique sample of British hirings, containing detailed information about employers …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …