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 …

, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes … have high rates of employment, compared with Ecuadorans. However, their employment is of much lower quality, characterized … downgrading, relative to their employment prior to emigration. As a result, despite their high educational attainment, Venezuelans …

to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations … relative to men. The paper does not find any significant effect of immigration on wages and employment, which indicates that …

sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata … that electricity shortages exert a substantial negative impact on employment rates in Africa. The evidence also shows three … causal impact of electricity shortages on employment, and the mechanisms driving the impact. Results from the paper reveal …