services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and …

In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning … and relevance in other industrialized countries. With America's embrace of an employment-centered antipoverty strategy … much in-work poverty is there in the United States? How does the US compare to other rich democracies? Has America's in …

that China can learn from Russia that it has a substantial potential for increasing employment among healthy people under …

This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi … employment away from employment-for-pay to self-employment. Therefore, the effect on total employment is ambiguous. OLS and fixed … effects regression are used to examine separately self-employment and employment-for-pay between three groups of borrowers …

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations …. We find that the enactment of both universal and public-sector only mandates reduce employment of likely unauthorized … workers. Meanwhile, employment verification does not affect naturalized Hispanic workers but increases the employment …

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment … outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit … labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men …

substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal employment was on gradual decline. The paper overviews … employment and earnings as well as the associated political economy challenges and consequences. …

unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the … indicate that employment and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. Unidirectional causality from employment to energy use … in Tunisia, Cameroun, Zambia and Ethiopia is found. A unidirectional causality from energy use to employment is found in …

market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …

Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …