with similar downturns had very different employment trends can help design policies to reduce such costs and improve labor … markets. This paper analyzes the recent employment experiences of six economies: Germany, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain …

The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …

enough to raise employment rates, and lackluster real earnings along with still-rampant labor market informality suggest that …

This paper argues that the large differences among EU countries in post-crisis employment performance are to a large … boost profits. With much of the cost adjustment falling on firms’ wage bills, employment losses were largest in countries …

may hamper employment creation. The results of the paper suggest that the relative low output-employment elasticities and …

We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … private-sector employment rates and high proportions of government-sector employment. Regressions of either private …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that …

, lowering tax wedges, and lowering government consumption. At the same time, greater labor supply translated into employment …