No country has achieved sustained economic development without investment in education. Thus, education policy can play … a vital role in facilitating development. But which types of schooling-secondary or tertiary-should public policy … stock determines a country's development. Hence, promoting the "wrong" type of schooling can have little effect on …

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 …

India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies …. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …