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 …

Government wage, benefit, and employment decisions are not taken on a profit-maximizing basis and have a substantial … impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor …, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an …

unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If sequencing is required, starting with PMRs would be more effective in boosting … output, while starting with LMRs would reduce unemployment faster. Finally, increasing unemployment benefits would be more …

.S. manufacturing industry, and it finds evidence of asymmetry. Tight policy increases job destruction and reduces net employment …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of sectoral employment and wages in the United States to changes in foreign … trade prices for 1980–90. Previous studies have concentrated mainly on the impact of changes in import prices on employment … and wage levels. This paper estimates the impact of changes in both import and export prices on employment and wages in …

employment when industries are finely disaggregated (450 manufacturing industries). However, this affect disappears at more …