countries, we find that offshoring generally lowers employment in manufacturing firms, and seems to increase the percentage of …In South Africa, the manufacturing sector -- important for growth and employment creation -- has shown declining growth …, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities …

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …

employment opportunities for unskilled African labourers. Youth residing in mining settlements, have a large vested interest in … school students towards mining as a form of employment and its impact on economic and social life in mining communities are …

to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …

With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …

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 … presence of increasingly routinized tasks and offshoring, on wages. We run quantile regressions which suggest that, when …

in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage …-level youth employment, though some important caveats apply. Our results prompt a re-evaluation of the (sometimes contradictory …) existing literature on the employment effects of the ETI: we judge that, in light of our findings, there is insufficient …

dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts … more exposed to trade liberalization experienced reductions in their employment levels, especially in female employment. We …

employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made … them. In this paper we thus provide a summary of the main sources of data on earnings and employment and their strengths …