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 … eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

Labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are characterized by high levels of informality and relatively … employment to shocks slower, especially when regulations are tightly enforced. Evidence suggests that strict labor market … (employment protection) decrease the speed of adjustment to shocks, they appear to be binding in different phases of the cycle …

This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A … 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 …

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 …

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-hand with others, such as in the areas of education or product market regulation, that may work pay. Labor market and other …

informality in Vietnam by examining: (i) the nature of labor informality and transitions from formal to informal employment status … and the role of worker characteristics; (ii) the empirical likelihood of being in informal employment and the policy … determinants of informality using within-in country variation in the business climate and governance; and (iii) whether different …

relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … rapid population growth and increased labor force participation. This paper shows that Philippine employment growth and …