associated with it In particular we distinguish between employment hours and effort per worker and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …

of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …

putty-clay model is also consistent with the small short-run employment effects of minimum wage hikes commonly found in … empirical work. However, unlike monopsony-based explanations for small short-run employment effects, the model implies that the …

of the past is that the outcome, in terms of growth, distribution, and employment, depends on how a country remains in …

employment and on the way employment gains and losses are distributed across firms, industries, national economies and components … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … with this variety of employment outcomes, the empirical evidence suggests that offshoring activities are mainly driven by a …

The Swedish employment rate is high in an international comparison and has been rising during recent decades. This … survey in this report suggests that the main drivers of the high and rising Swedish employment rates can be found in policies …

The challenge of employment in the Indian economy, especially after it growth acceleration since the mid-1980s, relates … to its quality rather than its quantity. While employment growth has kept pace with the labour force over the long run …, what has grown is informal employment. The coexistence of rapid capital accumulation, robust output growth and lack of …

such groups of regions react differently to key drivers of employment and wage setting. We find that the low income (high … turn, the high income (low employment) ones are more sensitive to the wage-productivity gap, and thus to the strategy that …

productivity of laggard firms, employment, and intensity of skilled workers. Our findings indicate that African firms are improving …