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 …

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …

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 …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw … employment gender gap over time to the disadvantage of young women. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of our data, we apply two …

transition of workers within different types of informal employment. Our results further indicate that both self-employed and …' transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment. A binary logit model is applied to General … Household Survey panel data for the periods 2010/11, 2012/13, and 2015/16. We find that informal employment has the greatest …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …

improves work conditions in small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Certified firms pay higher wages on average. They are also …

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 …