employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

-paid employment, whether they become persistent, or whether they result in repeated unemployment. The empirical evidence is mixed …Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many …

Job displacement represents a serious earnings risk to long-tenured workers through lower re-employment wages, and …

Job displacement poses a serious earnings threat to long-tenured workers through unemployment spells and lower re-employment … wages. The prevailing method of insuring job displacement losses involves an uncoordinated combination of unemployment … to the administrative complexity of unemployment insurance systems. If both options are operational, systematic …

Informal employment accounts for more than half of total employment in Latin America and the Caribbean, and an even … productivity jobs. Lowering payroll taxes is a potential lever to increase formal employment and extend social insurance coverage … relatively small employment effects. Cutting payroll taxes requires levying other taxes to compensate for lost revenue, which may …

workers find employment, pension and health benefits, and prices. Moreover, there is little evidence to show that licensing …

standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for … female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit …, neutralize, or even reduce employment. And increasing the coverage of overtime pay regulations has little effect on the share of …

standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for … female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit …, neutralize, or even reduce employment. And increasing the coverage of overtime pay regulations has little effect on the share of …