This paper evaluates the effects of the elimination of a payroll tax on employment and wages in four manufacturing and … service sectors in Brazil in early 2012. This tax, which accounted for 20 percent of the wage bill, was levied on employers … Labour which contained information on formal employment contracts. Exploring the fact that the tax reform only covered firms …

This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …

This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …