in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …

that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …

The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …. Industries with larger growth in imports from Mexico do not experience a decline in their routine employment share in the USA …

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on formal sector employment in Uganda. Utilizing employee …-level administrative tax data from the Uganda Revenue Authority, we describe the dynamics of employment as the pandemic evolved, seeking to …

intensity of routine tasks embodied in them in explaining changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular their … to employment, although the patterns resemble more that of pro-poor or pro-rich growth. Changes in the earnings structure …

measure of technology penetration, we estimate changes in regional employment and wages affected by automation technologies …This paper examines the labor market adjustments to four automation technologies (i.e. robots, communication technology … along with the reallocation of workers between sectors. We find that labor market adjustments to automation technologies …

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made … them. In this paper we thus provide a summary of the main sources of data on earnings and employment and their strengths …