Manufacturing generates very little employment in the developing world. Urban jobs are predominantly informal … for four broad strategies: (a) incentivizing large, productive firms to expand their employment; (b) enhancing productive …

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were …-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by … changes. - Wages are exogenous to employment before 1985, but not afterwards. - The wage elasticity and the employment …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

existing literature, we construct predicted employment growth indices that allow us to separately identify demand … health. These patterns, which are consistent with previous findings on the effects of individual parental employment and job …

European countries exhibit significant differences in employment rates of adult males. Differences in labor … migrants to isolate the effect of culturally transmitted labor-leisure preferences on individual employment rates. If migrants … about 24% of the top-bottom variation in employment rates across European countries …

People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a … findings is consistent with the idea that disability discrimination continues to impede employment prospects of people with …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the … level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises … OECD cross-sections follow almost identical patterns of employment change. The decline of Agriculture is attributable …