between informal employment and household poverty and life satisfaction, but it is not robust to changes in econometric … specification or sample composition. The authors conclude that the evidence indicates that informal employment in the Russian …

The European Employment Strategy is the subject of controversial discussion. It is hard to find an economic … employment policies are almost negligible. In its latest communication, the European Commission fails to provide a masterplan for … employment policy responsibilities from the national to the EU level. But the EU labour market policy lacks appropriate …

Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …

This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …