This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …

problems in its labor market, reflected in its high long–term and youth unemployment. Our analysis of the drivers of labor …

Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005–20) are obtained based on … household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employment to economic growth and … employment, means that even if sub-Saharan Africa realizes another decade of strong growth, the share of labor force employed in …