rates from employment, and has shown little improvement over the last 40 years. Furthermore, even among those who work … the racial gaps in this involuntary part-time employment are large even after controlling for observable characteristics …

regulation to strengthen competition could help expand formal sector employment. Changes in municipal laws and regulations to … ease migration and facilitate informal employment are also likely to be particularly important. Improving the … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …

Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …

Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …

economic growth no longer has any effect on employment ("jobless growth"), and second, that the "equilibrium" rate of … unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails even in favourable economic conditions, is on an increasing trend. This … anxieties. As far as the relationship between the growth of GDP and employment is concerned, the conclusion is, that it remains …

the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …