crisis of 1999-2002 with the aim of (1) identifying the most vulnerable households, (2) investigating whether employment in … did not serve to decrease their vulnerability. A significant source of vulnerability was linked to changes in employment …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … 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 …

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …

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 …

return. In the short run, an adverse shock to a region results in a sharp drop in employment and a gradual decline of … physical capital; the system returns to its initial capital/labor ratio after four years. The sharp drop in employment is …’s employment. …