This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross …-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor …-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries is susceptible to a resource curse, and grows rapidly in response to …

-country variation in the rigidity of employment protection legislation. However, the supporting evidence is largely confined to levels … introduces a new index capturing the rigidity of employment protection legislation (LAMRIG) for an unbalanced panel of more than …

investment) determines the ratio of jobs to employment and the ratio of unemployed to vacancies. Competitive microeconomic … behavior then determines the wage and interest rates. Changes in the ratio of national debt to employment have real effects on … factor prices. Implications for effects of taxes and unemployment benefits are derived. The model explains recent declines in …

employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the labour market both theoretically and … employment problems but it is in line with the outcomes of many other economic studies. The reasons for the ambiguous effects of …

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties. …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …

Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … the newly unemployed. This finding carries a strong warning for policy assessment: unless controlled for cyclical … fluctuations in the composition of the newly unemployed an evaluation of a policy designed to get the longterm unemployed into work …

other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

Health Survey data from ten countries. We find that periods of relative high unemployment are associated with lower fertility … postpone and even reduce childbearing in response to downturns. This behavior is mainly associated to increasing unemployment … periods of unemployment may be good to have children because opportunity costs are lower, maternity is reduced or postponed …

, 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 …