different impacts by gender, sector, and status in employment. The findings show that both relative and absolute job losses have … been greater in the informal economy, while the rate and level of recovery have been greater for formal employment. Further …

high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …

, by decomposing changes in the level and share of manufacturing employment. The results indicate that in most countries … the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …

1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …. Industries with larger growth in imports from Mexico do not experience a decline in their routine employment share in the USA …

pushed to accept informal sector jobs that are insecure, unsafe, and lack non-wage benefits. Precarious employment is … pervasive among lower socioeconomic groups, leading to the perpetuation of misery across generations. Understanding employment … the initial conditions. We analyse the static nature of vulnerable employment-especially youth unemployment and …

In this paper we analyse informal work in Mexico, which accounts for the majority of employment in the country and has … grown over time. We document that the informal sector is composed of two distinct parts: salaried informal employment and … self-employment. Relative to self-employment and formal salaried employment, on average informal salaried workers have …

' transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment. A binary logit model is applied to General … Household Survey panel data for the periods 2010/11, 2012/13, and 2015/16. We find that informal employment has the greatest … transition of workers within different types of informal employment. Our results further indicate that both self-employed and …