). To achieve more and better employment (where “better” depends on such factors as rate of pay, job security, employment … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors … interact, how unemployment is caused, and how employment can be improved. At the same time, drawing on practical experience …

studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform … was to decrease birth-related maternal employment breaks by providing more generous parental benefits for a shorter period … childcare slots. Overall, I did not find significant changes in maternal employment during the first three years of motherhood …

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We answer this … question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 countries. Using … the local projection method, we find that, during recessions, a positive fiscal spending shock increases female employment …

former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry … Demonstration (TJRD). The analysis assesses the effects of these programs on employment and recidivism. We find that the programs in … both studies led to a large increase in employment driven by the transitional jobs themselves. However, the programs did …

-dataset from 16 representative provinces as a merged county-level panel to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage changes …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes led to significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …

This paper examines the effect of increased elderly employment in Japan, caused by the legal obligation of continued … employment enacted in 2006, on employment of other workers and elderly’s own earnings. I find no evidence for substitution …

-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a … employment. …