The paper elaborates on the employment intensity of growth. Previous evidence regarding this question is surveyed … that the employment intensity of growth is influenced by the country's wage setting process, the share of the service …

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 …

privatization of public companies impact on the distribution of employment and wages between the formal and the informal sector. We …

inappropriate minimum wage schedules. Both measures made East German production possibilities and employment decline. …

continuing vocational training (CVT) on employment, the risk of unemployment, and wages. To control for education, profession and … reemployed and higher chances to stay into an existing employment. The results also indicate that repeated short activities in … CVT are more beneficial then long activities typically carried out by the German employment agency during the period of …

We raise the question whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to employment generation in Mexico and … employment data covering almost 200 manufacturing industries. We estimate dynamic labor demand functions for blue and white … FDI has a significantly positive, though quantitatively modest impact on manufacturing employment in Mexico. Moreover, we …

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating … income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the … employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training policies. Moreover …

people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on aggregate employment. Low-wage subsidies have three … important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by … that there are more unskilled workers associated with a relatively low employment rate. Third, the government budget …

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 …