transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours …

countries is explained by the sectoral/occupational employment structure of the economies. …

access to finance on employment growth and performance at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the impact of financing … obstacles varies across firm sizes. The results show that higher obstacles in access to finance reduces employment growth and …

underlying the decline of routine occupations and its link with informal employment in a middle-income country context. To shed … downgrading for routine manual workers: workers in routine manual formal employment become increasingly unemployed or use … informality as a buffer against job loss, and workers in routine manual informal employment become unemployed or transit to non …

on social infrastructure - including education, healthcare, childcare and social assistance - on the gender employment … infrastructure expenditure on private investment, GDP and employment in all areas of the country. However, the reduction of the … gender employment gap is detected only in the South and among high-skilled women. These results stress the need for targeted …

employment variation to provide a causal estimate of winning a PPC on firms' employment. Winning a PPC has a small positive … impact on a firm's short-run employment. The study investigates mechanisms and heterogeneity that can explain the initial …