improve employment and income equality outcomes with no substantial impact on the overall risk of poverty. Nevertheless, the …-time employment …

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 …

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 …

well as the improvement in the responsiveness of employment to variations in output can be largely attributed to the …

We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure-electricity, roads, schools and … employment effect. Overall, we estimate that one percent of global GDP in public investment can create more than seven million … jobs worldwide through its direct employment effects alone …

substantial rise in fixedterm and part-time employment. The rise in parttime work explains much of the rise in earnings inequality … represent a "stepping-stone" to permanent employment. Finally, we offer suggestive evidence that the labor market reforms …