This paper explores the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages over a period 1993-2006, a …, the paper shows that employment has increased across all manufacturing industries. Data from Egypt’s labor market survey … increase in wages in manufacturing industries though the role of export orientation in influencing poor wages has not been …

This paper analyses the employment effects of mergers and acquisitions by using matched establishment-level data from … Finland over the period of 1989-2003. The data covers all sectors. We compare the employment effects of cross-border M&As with …-border M&As lead to downsizing in manufacturing employment. The effects of cross-border M&As on employment in non …

sales returns. Enterprises that employ more than one worker, on the average, cut employment significantly during the slowest … months as compared to employment in the busiest months. Thus a link is established between income insecurity and job … insecurity which deters the informal enterprises from increasing permanent employment and hence remains small overtime. Instead …

This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of a minimum wage increase on employment, wages, and expenditures … of workers in the formal sector who have wages below the minimum level in Vietnam. Using the difference … minimum wage increase reduced employment of low-wage workers in the formal sector. However, workers who lost formal sector …

these higher wages led firms to cut employment or shut down operations. The minimum wage increases led to employment losses …-sweatshop activism did not have significant adverse effects on employment in the TFA sectors. The fact that wages soared and employment …During the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists increased their efforts to improve working conditions and raise wages for …

thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based on the following topics: a) The employment policy (Time regimes … - time use, flexibility, part-time work, work-life balance -, and the work contracts regimes – wages, contract types …

LDCs. And this change is also associated with a historic employment transition, where the agricultural sector gradually … loses importance. Both the population and the employment transition that can be observed for the group of least develops …

employment on Polish labor market, determinants of wages and wage inequalities in Poland; effectiveness of ALMP in Poland …This Report is a third in the series Employment in Poland. It consists of four Parts, devoted to empirical analysis of … demand shocks) were of foremost importance to unemployment and employment fluctuations in the region. At the same time, we …