institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and …

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 …

Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005–20) are obtained based on … household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employment to economic growth and … employment, means that even if sub-Saharan Africa realizes another decade of strong growth, the share of labor force employed in …

Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries … felt in all advanced economies. Reforms aimed at increasing productivity in services and reducing gaps in employment … protection and benefits between regular and nonregular workers could help put Japan's wages on an upward trajectory in the medium …

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …

forces. The rigidity of relative wages, despite relative shifts in labor demand that favor skilled workers, has resulted in … sharp declines in employment rates for unskilled workers. The microeconomic evidence is shown to have important implications …

In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …