This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in … investment and technology transfer in labour-intensive tradable industries, and thus raising labour demand and employment. …

on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … 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 …

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 …

structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the … trend has emerged: a rise in the share of public sector employment along with higher conditional returns to public sector …

In South Africa, the manufacturing sector -- important for growth and employment creation -- has shown declining growth …). Offshoring influences jobs and wages differently depending on the type of industry and worker. We provide a nuanced view of … countries, we find that offshoring generally lowers employment in manufacturing firms, and seems to increase the percentage of …

compare total labour income and employment between 2011 and 2017 with other sources of data, including Statistics South Africa …'s Quarterly Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Employment Statistics firm surveys. Finally, I use the data to estimate Gini …

improves work conditions in small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Certified firms pay higher wages on average. They are also … more likely to offer formal contracts and to pay social and health insurance to workers. The estimation accounts for …

skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of … effects of FDI, but finds positive demand side effect of FDI of raising wage inequality and average wages. The results remain …

wages, on average. Interestingly, and contrary to the literature, our results indicate a negative relationship between firm … size and wages. …