We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC … nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment …

We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … private-sector employment rates and high proportions of government-sector employment. Regressions of either private …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that …

-time employment appears to have weakened wage growth even in economies where headline unemployment rates are now at, or below, their …

-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair - likely owing to low entry wages of new … wages: for full-time, full-employed workers, the Wage-Phillips curve - the empirical relationship between wage growth and …

The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean … countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth … to major sources of labor market determinants, in the long and short run. The main determinants of employment include …