The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the …, and remittances data to assess the employment and social consequences of the crisis, including falling demand for labor … provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …

pressure for employment creation has continued to persist and the situation of excess supply of labor, especially in the urban … area, has been worsening. This paper explores the changing patterns of the urban labor market, and identifies the main …

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous …, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the sources of growth in the potential future labor force are described in this … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for …

emerge, when labor forces change according to the 2007 UN population projections. It finds that demographic factors are no … with the yen carry-trade; and that China is key to understanding Asia's demographic impact on the world. It also finds that … Asia offers the greatest arbitrage opportunities worldwide during the demographic transition and has the greatest potential …

In 1994 the World Bank called East Asia's strong economic growth performance a "miracle". Trade openness, high savings … was left unexplained. Research in the ensuing years has shown that when demographic change in East Asia is taken into … account, the miracle is explained. These earlier studies used the 1960-1990 sample period, but since 1990 Asia has undergone …

dynamic evolution of past variation in birth and death rates, is producing a significant shift in age structure in Asia. The … consequences of population aging depend on behavioral responses to the shift in age structure: the female labor force participation … and economic growth. The results suggest that population aging may not significantly impede economic performance in Asia …