not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …

, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for more than 99 percent of establishments and 80 percent of employment in … manufacturing. Second, the unorganized sector is stubbornly persistent -- it accounted for 81 percent of manufacturing employment in … states show limited change in unorganized sector employment shares. Fourth, the degree to which localized unorganized …

employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in lower-income countries. Household enterprises tend to operate with limited … interest or support from governments. This is the case in Mozambique, where neither the poverty reduction strategy nor small … higher household consumption, lower rural poverty, as well as upward mobility, particularly for rural and poorly educated …

regulation on employment at the store level. We find that stricter labor regulation has a strong negative effect on employment …. Our estimates show that labor reforms are likely to increase employment by 22 percent of the current level for an average …

not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless … subsistence and refuge from urban poverty and unemployment but is unable to grow beyond subsistence because it is disconnected …

has been successful in building high-tech parks and ICT industries, but they are limited in terms of employment generation … combat the unprecedented employment challenge, China must implement a systemic and sustained strategy, which may consist of …

-conflict or low-conflict areas. Employment rates are higher in large part because women participate more in the labor market, but … work tends to be more vulnerable, with more self-employment and unpaid family work. The authors show that these differences …

Despite low open unemployment, labor market outcomes are unsatisfactory in Moldova. Employment is low and job … low level of employment in Moldova is due to the low rate of firm entry and the low rate of job creation in existing firms … that the primary factor behind the small size of the employment generating sector is the high cost of doing business in …

form of employment in Latin America. The majority of the research on this segment of the labor force relies on small sample …