social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …

-dimensional dynamical system in the employment rate and output/capital ratio. The economy converges cyclically to a long-run equilibrium … involving a Harrod-neutral profile of technical change, a constant rate of employment of labor, and constant input shares. The …-run rate of growth of output per worker but a negative effect on long-run employment. Economic policy can also affect the …

Employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) has been criticized for tying insurance to continued employment. Our … research sheds light on two central issues regarding employment-contingent health insurance: whether such insurance “locks … onset of illness, because health shocks pose challenges to continued employment. We study how men’s dependence on their own …

employment. Information on children’s behaviour problems at 3 years from 22,115 mothers employed before pregnancy and … participating in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study were linked to national register data on employment and relevant social … %) had excess risk of leaving paid employment irrespective of other important characteristics generally associated with …

’ combination of gainful employment and family obligations may results in higher levels of sick leave absence. One popular policy …