Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions. A conceptual model shows how employment …

Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is … when the center wants to honor the employment guarantee. Two main drivers of such rationing are identified: local …

India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within … three years. The program quarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wage to each rural household on demand, with … employment impact on various types of crimes, ranging from burglary to kidnapping to riots. We show that the program acts as an …

not adjust back down. This ratcheting effect generates a 9% reduction in employment levels. Inflation enables downward …

and examines whether the US fulfills these criterion. The US's employment and productivity performance make it a … workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and …

China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …

or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is … intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

to better employment opportunities in the city, and also generate the following spillovers: (a) A higher density of …