employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to …

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …

Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP … find much scope for improving the design of key labor market institutions-including collective bargaining and employment …

In recent years, unemployment rates in some ECCU countries have been among the highest globally. This paper evaluates … significantly associated with high structural unemployment, while the global crisis added a cyclical component. Our analysis also … unemployment is related to the phase out of EU preferences on bananas/sugar exports or to a skills mismatch. As expected …

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 …

participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using …, lack of sufficient formal job creation due to labor market rigidities leads to an increase in unemployment and informality …, and further widens gender gaps in formal employment and wages. Simultaneously implementing such policies with formal job …

in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …) employment allocation between informal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The direction of …

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 …