This working paper presents a comparison of the employment structure and development among different types of districts … that in Western Germany the rural districts of minor density could not keep up with the employment growth in the remaining … contributions to research in the field of regional employment disparities clarifies that the differences are driven by a large …

countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of …. In contrast, there is little evidence for negative private employment effects. …

We analyze the magnitude and the causes of the low formal employment rate of the Roma in Hungary between 1993 and 2007 …. The employment rate of the Roma dropped dramatically around 1990. The ethnic employment gap has been 40 percentage points … gap, the number of children is important for female employment, and geographic differences play little role once education …

India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … SEZs lend themselves to human development concerns, in India. Employment generated by zones is remunerative. Wage rates are … study examines the sectoral and economic composition of SEZ activities in India. It finds that labour intensive, skill …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … and partly due to an education effect. We find no evidence of changes in employment opportunities or of social and …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and …

Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor … laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection … or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce registered sector employment and output. These laws do no seem to …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …

of methodological approaches - factor content, growth accounting and econometric modelling. We also compare India …'s employment outcomes with four other countries - Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam, where similar methodological … approaches were used. We find that the impact of international trade on manufacturing employment seems to be similar to those …

Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics … services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing … underscores the importance for India of continuing to invest in labour skills. We conclude that sustaining economic growth and …