This paper provides a critique of the ?unemployment invariance hypothesis,? according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

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 provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

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 …

The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in … entrants and returnees from non-employment. We then investigate if rising trade with China and Eastern Europe causally affected …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young …

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant … sectors. We find the differences in the short and long-run wage and employment responses to changes in export to be explained …

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within … households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment … identification of causal impacts. Employment in the RMG sector is found to substantially increase women's say in decisions about the …

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant … sectors. We find the differences in the short and long-run wage and employment responses to changes in export to be explained …

the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and employment. The focus is on analyzing the effects … wages and capital stock, conditional on which the firm decides on production factors of employment, working hours and … capital operating time. We suggest the use of a panel data approach applied to manufacturing data. A dynamic model is …

manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We …