policy prescriptions correct early on is imperative. Globalization and the aging of developed economy populations will ensure … that demand for migrant workers remains robust for years to come. Hence, the volume of remittances likely will continue to …

This paper assesses the impact of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Though the region … out-migration in SSA. …

leads to lower wage inequality for different skills, industries and population groups, but has not investigated its impact … productivity and unemployment differentials. …

inefficient services sector have exacerbated the negative impact of globalization and technical change on the labor income share …Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries …. This paper suggests that Japan's dualities between regular and "nonregular" labor market contracts and the relatively …

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … problems in its labor market, reflected in its high long–term and youth unemployment. Our analysis of the drivers of labor …

from a take-off in domestic productivity of the magnitude observed in some of these countries. …

This paper documents stylized facts on the process of structural transformation around the world and empirically … for by country characteristics, such as real GDP per capita, demographic structure, and population size. It also finds …

of migrant workers from South Asia during 2006–08. The remittances-to-GDP ratio in South Asia and the Philippines are … countries is related to the resilience of non-oil GDP growth in the GCC countries and the surge in the GCC countries’ hiring …