This paper documents how informal employment in Mexico is countercyclical, lags the cycle and is negatively correlated … to formal employment. This contributes to explaining why total employment in Mexico displays low cyclicality and … variability over the business cycle when compared to Canada, a developed economy with a much smaller share of informal employment …

Shock has affected the future growth rates of productivity, employment level, workforce composition, wages, export … performance, and informal employment levels within Colombias manufacturing sector. Empirically, I use a two-stage estimation … outside Latin America. The results validate that the China Shock has significant effects on future growth rates for employment …

. Controlling for potential biases due to initial conditions, panel attrition, and employment selection, findings suggest that …

output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we … find that states with more inflexible labour regulations have witnessed slower growth in employment and output in …