Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk declines despite lower employment growth for continuing establishments … - attributable to hiring freezes rather than to layoffs - and a lack of change in firm level employment growth. A plausible …

computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We … construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry output have larger effects on employment in … relationship between industry-level employment and output. Our empirical results align with the predictions of the theory and …

We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We … find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …

This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers … similar employment and income levels before the agreement was reached. Assistant nurses see higher increases in labor income …