control for factors that influence personal choice, we re-examine the determinants of female employment in Europe. The results … 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 …

. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the … on employment growth. Moreover, the effects tend to be concentrated among non-affiliated firms. The lack of …

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 …

This paper reviews public expenditure in Lithuania to identify areas where deeper structural reforms may be warranted … to improve spending efficiency and contain future spending pressures. The analysis benchmarks spending in Lithuania …

This paper reviews Lithuania’s fiscal consolidation since 2009, assesses the contribution of revenue and expenditure to … lowest revenue-to-GDP ratio in the EU, Lithuania’s fiscal adjustment has so far relied mainly on expenditure measures, with … the quality of measures deteriorating over time. The analysis also suggests that Lithuania’s tax system, in comparison …