business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …

This paper assesses some of the main strands of the theoretical literature on unemployment and employment and shows … structures are profoundly different from that of high-income economies. It then tackles the knowledge deficit on employment …

treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average impact of training on employment is positive, but close to zero and … training, the paper finds that training had statistically significant effects on the quality of employment and that the …

A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27 percent of … regulation on employment at the store level. We find that stricter labor regulation has a strong negative effect on employment …. Our estimates show that labor reforms are likely to increase employment by 22 percent of the current level for an average …

not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as jobless …

assess the extent to which the adoption of digital technology affects employment and the skill content of jobs at the local … to a reduction in employment in local labor markets. The decrease in employment is larger for routine tasks, thereby …

This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are …, there are large net shifts from non-professional own-account work into formal wage employment. Across all regions and income …

This paper investigates the contribution of small firms to employment, job creation, and growth in developing countries …. While small firms (<20 employees) have the smallest share of aggregate employment, the SME sector's (<100 employees … and employment growth, even after controlling for firm age. Large firms, however, have higher productivity growth …