financial crisis. Most of these layoffs affected migrant workers, who have typically lacked employment protection, tend to be … employment shock was short-lived. By mid-2009, the macroeconomic stimulus and other interventions had succeeded in boosting … the crisis, and notes the biases associated with alternative ex post efforts to measure the employment effects of the …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …

In this paper we focus on the rapidly deepening bilateral India-China economic relationship. Each is deeply integrating … into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … service-lead growth (see Rodrick & Subramanian (2006)). An alternative view is that India is effectively a lagged version of …

mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …

The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …

economies: Brazil, China, and India. The analysis focuses on the countries' experience in various dimensions, including price …