This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … negative impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum … wage on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …

This paper analyzes the effects of selected structural reforms on output and employment in the short and medium term … and employment in the medium term. Furthermore, the paper also assesses whether the impact of structural reforms varies …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to … to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …

liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly ‘no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational fiscal …

This paper provides an overview of the possible linkages between state-owned banks, privatization, and banking sector … provide guidance to policymakers regarding bank privatization …