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 …

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment …

-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized … burden per worker constant continues to be good for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of …

According to the compensation theory, market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment. …

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes: routine … jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first direct …