the empirical relevance of search-matching theory to efficiency wage and bargaining theories, where employment is … product demand affect job creation. We find no evidence that unemployed workers contribute to job creation, as predicted by …

exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …) unemployment duration due to higher (lower) match selectivity. We find empirical support for this implication in a dataset covering …

separation, total employment effects and composition of labour force by gender, managerial level and age cohorts. Six models are … in more sustainable positive net-employment and increased labour mobility … are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to …

This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of … aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique … other developed and emerging economies. Small firms in Africa create jobs mainly at the point of market-entry and play a …

, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier … jobs because no major reforms to labor market institutions were recently implemented in the region. Instead, the main cause …

employment prospects of previously unemployed program participants. First, we outline a theoretical approach based on a firm … subsidies have no effect on human capital they improve individuals' employment prospects less than training programs …. Contrariwise, on the assumption that the formation of human capital on subsidized jobs equals that by formal training subsidization …

exit the labour market, represents a viable mechanism for understanding the cyclical properties of vacancies and … unemployment. The model features both hiring freeze and bankruptcies, where the former represents a sudden shut down of vacancy … posting at the firm level with labour downsizing governed by natural turnover. A bankrupt firm, conversely, shut down its …