different impacts by gender, sector, and status in employment. The findings show that both relative and absolute job losses have … been greater in the informal economy, while the rate and level of recovery have been greater for formal employment. Further …

The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …. Industries with larger growth in imports from Mexico do not experience a decline in their routine employment share in the USA …

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 …

How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of … Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of … "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects of the Lewisian development process. In fast-growing countries with …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …

In this paper we analyse informal work in Mexico, which accounts for the majority of employment in the country and has … grown over time. We document that the informal sector is composed of two distinct parts: salaried informal employment and … self-employment. Relative to self-employment and formal salaried employment, on average informal salaried workers have …

high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …

This paper examines employment transitions in the South African labour market. Using the Post-Apartheid Labour Market … accounting for wage employment and self-employment as well as upper-tier and lower-tier informal sector segments. Transition … segmentation between wage employment and self-employment. They also show a lag in the employment impacts following a recession …

competitive labour markets assumption is not valid for employment in developing countries. Our objective in this paper is to …