Wage or employment subsidies have been used in both developed and developing countries to raise employment levels …, they should preferably be linked to structured workplace training, be targeted to industries where employment will be … requires policies that improve economic growth and the economys employment absorption capacity, that raise skills of new labor …

skill in adulthood, have better outcomes in the marriage market, earn higher wages and are more likely to be employed in …

series of casual wages from 119 locations in both Ethiopian cities and rural towns. We use this data for two types of … changes in nominal wages respond to changes in food and non-food prices. We find alarming results. The disposable income of … evidence that wages substantially adjust to higher food prices, except in the long run. …

immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … effects on native wages. On the latter side of the debate, many point to the work of Borjas (2003), who takes a national view … estimate a positive, statistically significant relationship between men’s wages and women’s entry into education …

Using data from multiple sources, we show that in Bangladesh, the increase in real wages, particularly female wages … to shift in favor of workers) has arrived in Bangladesh. Rising wages are likely a result of a combination of more ample … real wages has boosted the poor’s earnings, thereby reducing their likelihood of being poor. …

evaluate how the 1998 “flood of the century” affected wages in Bangladesh. We find long-term declines in wages where …

debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the … pattern of male and female employment and discusses the indirect tax distortions across sectors within each country and … between countries. The possible impact of the indirect tax distortion on male and female employment is quantitatively assessed …

generated additional jobs, but the share of employment growth from these sectors was small and skewed more toward higher …