This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...

Mit dieser Studie wird eine Serie von Grundlagenpapieren zur Statistik und den Freien Berufen eröffnet, die mit der amtlichen Statistik beginnend, zentrale Statistiken der Freien Berufe auf der Indiviualbasis thematisiert.Freie Berufe im Mikrozensus I - Struktur und quantitative Bedeutung...

This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...

This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs to better understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...

This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis in this paper is that we explain several stylized facts on labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics...

It has been well documented that the share of the working-age population employed in "middle-skill" occupations has been falling for some time, while the share in lower- and higher-skill jobs has been rising -- i.e. "polarization" of the labor market (e.g. Autor 2010). However, the dynamics and...

This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...

This study is originated from our conference ‚Liberal Professions in changing markets' on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of our Research Institute on Professions (FFB) of the University of Lüneburg.One of the important and central markets is the labour market. The changing labour...

Following an old economic literature dealing with work sharing, the aim of this paper is to review the theoretical effects on unemployment and inequality we may expect from a working time reduction (WTR). To do so, we begin considering labour demand models and we go through general equilibrium...

Technical change as a result of skilled-labor biased demand provides a premium for that type of factor. Relevant wage gaps favoring skilled workers in high-tech positions have been found in Mexico, but the wage gap is decreasing during the last decade. To provide an insight into the main causes...