region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …

Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …

This paper investigates the economic effects of conflict, using the terrorist conflict in the Basque Country as a case … political terrorism in the 1970's. The subsequent economic evolution of this 'counterfactual' Basque Country without terrorism … is compared to the actual experience of the Basque Country. We find that, after the outbreak of terrorism, per capita GDP …

The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …