This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa toexamine immigration's impact in … the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-SaharanAfrica. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …) employment allocation betweeninformal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The directionof …

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 …

growth. The paper shows the benefits of comprehensive policy reforms aimed at increasing labor force participation and youth … employment and reducing duality are likely to be considerable in the medium term …

, but its youth unemployment is one of the highest in the world. To help understand this duality, we employ synthetic panels … from repeated household surveys for LA6 countries from 1990-2018 to investigate the determinants of the youth …

The paper looks at the dynamics of employment in South Africa and examines the factors that contributed to the job … productivity growth in most sectors, played an important role in suppressing employment creation. The paper also finds that while … is also supported by a cross-country analysis, which shows that in South Africa the link between the real wage and labor …

Raising South Africa’s low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP … reform options to enhance South Africa’s job market performance, drawing from international evidence and new analysis. We … find much scope for improving the design of key labor market institutions—including collective bargaining and employment …

We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure—electricity, roads, schools and … in R&D in OECD countries. Green investment and investment with a larger R&D component deliver higher employment effect … through its direct employment effects alone …

The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …