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

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

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 …

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 …

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …

This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection for regular workers and how it … the responses of sectoral employment to large job protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the …

unemployment and debt. The paper illustrates in a downside scenario, how low potential growth and crisis legacies leave the euro …