employment and of having higher earnings in it. Women with greater responsibilities at home are less likely to want formal … employment, and they also face a lower probability of being hired in such jobs. The findings indicate the segmentation of Mexican … informal employment. However, the estimated fraction of involuntary informal workers is quite high. …

played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied …

. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such … employment effects. We test our main mechanism against other explanations, and show that our findings are robust to alternative …

shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

may suggest that policies to foster effective rural-urban migration and wage employment in rural areas, have largely …