implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made … impact on manufacturing employment growth, this has not led to an overall increase in aggregate unemployment or prevented the …

The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

between pay and productivity in the public sector …

This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented … activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on …

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 …

moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity services and manufacturing. Although the employment share in … a primary education; it has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as it has … manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income African countries the employment share in manufacturing has not …

-hour basis. What look like large productivity gaps in national accounts data could really be employment gaps, calling into … overview of key features of structural transformation?labor allocation and labor productivity?in four African economies. New …, micro-based measures of sector labor allocation and cross-sector productivity differentials describe the incentives …

This paper examines the role of changes in sectoral productivity gaps over time in accounting for growth realized by … countries over the past few decades. To quantify the productivity impact of the sectoral gaps, a simple model of resource … changes in distortions is because of unrealized gains suggested by high levels of present distortions, productivity gains are …