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

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 … of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic …

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

labour market reforms impacted employment in different age groups. …

The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …

This paper documents that the employment of Asian Americans with no college education has been especially hard hit by … job characteristics. Asian American employment is also harder hit unconditional on education. This suggests that different … selection into education levels across ethnic groups alone cannot explain the main results. This pattern does not apply to the …

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …