-national variations in the scale of informal employment which variously correlate higher levels of informal employment with economic under … informal employment collected by the International Labour Organisation using a common survey method across 41 less developed … cent of the non-agricultural workforce is in informal employment across these 41 countries, with the share in informal …

absorbing the structurally unemployed. Here, day labor is the employment of last resort, allowing workers to subsist on the … the construction industry. There is evidence of some mobility into more stable and better paying employment. Practical … implications – This paper documents the need for policies and programs to increase employment opportunities for day laborers and to …

whether important causal factors of social exclusion such as age, education, gender and employment status influence … smoothing the transition from unemployment to self-employment worthwhile. Originality/value This is the first extensive …

Purpose – The paper aims at providing evidence on the impact on employment of outward foreign direct investment …/methodology/approach – The effects of foreign production undertaken by Belgian foreign-oriented companies on employment in Belgium are … investigated by performing econometric tests for complementarity or substitution between home and affiliate employment. The data …

wages, employment effects of outward foreign direct investment, immigration patterns, and regional social and labour …

to calculate differences in the probability of employment for different fields of study and propensity score matching to … graduating from a particular field of study affects the probability of employment in all three years. In general, regardless of … the field, the authors observe decreasing probabilities of employment in 2008 and 2009. Using propensity score matching …

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore whether temporary jobs are a port of entry into permanent employment and to argue …. Findings – The authors show that the transition to permanent employment is more likely for individuals who hold any type of …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in China. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper uses the difference-in-difference methodology to estimate the employment and wage impacts of the minimum wage … minimum wages. Findings – The study finds that overall, minimum wages in China do have an adverse employment effect but the …

paper is to analyze their impact on wage growth and employment retention probability of affected workers. Design … minimum wage regulation in both parts of the country. When it comes to employment effects, the results clearly differ between … the two parts of the country. The employment effects are negative for East Germany and positive for West Germany, although …