-income countries and in the low-income countries. Whereas the economic downturn has threatened recent progress in enhancing employment … opportunities, the impact has fallen disproportionately on the quality of employment rather than on the number of jobs. Slower …

Employment effects of the recent global economic crisis have differed significantly across countries. An active public … banking crises were much more severe in their impact on employment than were global economic downturns: on average, the … reduction in employment growth was more than twice as strong. The authors also find that openness to trade has both deepened the …