that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in … family structure with income pooling is less the norm, there are fewer opportunities for paid employment, and aggregate …

In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … investment and technological change and hence on economic growth and on employment.There is very little research about the direct … links between monetary policy and employment. The impact of growth on employment depends on what are the main drivers of …

reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can be annulled by shifts in the public sector employment and wage … policies. Since the public sector accounts for a substantial share of employment in developing countries, this approach is … empirically and theoretically that the liberalization of labor markets plays against informal employment by increasing the …

This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and … and an increase in the gender employment gap. In line with the literature, we find evidence that the unequal distribution … the change in the employment gap in India. Contrary to the previous literature, however, we find little evidence that the …

the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … are estimated to replicate the structure of the labor market in Malaysia in 2009 and the distribution of earnings for …

environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. We track a large fraction of program drop …