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 …

Botswana. The IMF report analyzes that large public employment significantly affect labor market outcomes in middle …

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 …