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 …

manufacture and among low- to mid-skilled workers. The shifting nature of employment away from full-time jobs and a rollback of … employment protection, unemployment benefits and unemployment benefits have been the main contributors. Technology and … globalization hurt sectors where jobs are routinizable but helped others that require specialized skills. High-skilled professionals …

We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC … nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment …

participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using …, and further widens gender gaps in formal employment and wages. Simultaneously implementing such policies with formal job …

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 …

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 …

on employment indirectly, in addition to direct costs of crime associated with material losses, which are in line with …

agricultural feminization and engage in formal wage employment, but these opportunities diminish when women marry-a disadvantage …

The Western Balkan countries have some of the lowest female labor force participation and employment rates across … micro-level data to explore what explains low participation and employment rates among women in the region. Our findings …