taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

high-productivity, high-paying jobs for Uzbekistan's growing population will be vital to sustaining economic growth … income distribution. Uzbekistan can expect to develop higher-paying jobs as it transitions from a factor-driven economy to an … employment. This new analysis was possible by applying the growth decomposition tool to new data disaggregated by sectors of the …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the … employment levels and average wages by gender and consider whether export destination or the competiveness of economies matters … improves female employment but reduces overall average wages and female wages. Increasing exports to the European Union as well …

Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …, nearly a million jobs in the Great Recession …

, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

Iraq needs a strategy to make rapid progress in tackling its profound jobs challenges. Iraq is facing a jobs crisis of …/ public sector hiring can create jobs at the desired scale without significant new policy action. The first-best solution for … aim is to outline workable steps for progress in a jobs crisis in a post-conflict situation. Because these steps focus on …

employers has declined since the 1980s, yet there is a commonly expressed view that long-term employment relationships are more … difficult to attain. We reconcile these observations by examining how the distribution of employment tenure has changed in … tenure has declined markedly among older men; this trend may have spurred popular perceptions that long-term employment is …