"This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its … impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on … smaller amount of informal employment. Furthermore, by reducing the firm's access to unregulated labor, stricter enforcement …

employment are isolated. Next, the experiences of selected developing countries which have undertaken similar reforms are … positive employment effect is possible in the medium term. The analysis also shows that although the reforms are deep compared …

not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless …

evaluating employment programs' outcomes; reviewing the role of labor market regulations in job creation; and reforming technical … the recent Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) and earlier Bank's work on youth employment, this report addresses labor …

, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment …-paid laborers. The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment in both supply side (better …

Employment and skills are at the core of Europe 2020, the European Union's (EU) competitiveness strategy, and are … economic crisis and because important reforms in employment and education have not yet been completed. The Europe 2020 Romania … report discusses the key challenges currently faced by Romania in the area of productive employment, and proposes a set of …

Djibouti, in particular regarding employment; (ii) examining the potential of the sector for creating jobs and generating new …