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 …

environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance … to electricity are found to explain a significant part of the lack of employment growth in MENA firms compared to their …

) - defined as the share of sub-national own spending not financed through own revenues - in four European countries: Belgium …-national governments in Belgium, Italy, and Spain, while re-centralization of health sector expenditures was the cause of the decline in …

core. This paper puts recent demand patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium into historical perspective. We find that …

towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …