This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in …

literature, the analysis in this paper focuses on the importance of the ICT environment, as a potentially important barrier to … the importance of this ICT environment for asset allocation (and the creation of intangibles) for the financial structure …

This paper tests the impact of ICT on economic growth for underdeveloped and developing countries by using a panel … dataset for the period of 1995-2006. We first develop the theory between ICT and economic growth. We show that ICT-capital has …. Next, we estimate a panel data set with 131 underdeveloped and developing countries under the assumption that ICT is one of …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that … unemployment rates, are more likely to be self-employed and tend to earn lower wages. These disparities do not appear to be …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …

Eine der Maßnahmen, mit denen die Bundesregierung die Folgen der aktuellen Coronakrise für den Arbeitsmarkt zu … Zeitschrift veröffentlichte Artikel bezieht sich auf die Auswirkungen der damaligen Krise auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Der … Artikel stellt die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Wirtschaftsleistung und dem Arbeitsmarkt anhand der Ergebnisse der …