Ghana's status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country's remarkable growth performance, which culminated … in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

rising temperatures and drought on the employment outcomes of working–age individuals in South Africa between 2008 and 2017 … more reliant on tourism. The employment outcomes of women, part-time workers, and workers without a high school diploma …

probit models and find that after the reform there was no statistically significant change in the differential employment …-sector employees of this group after the reform. Moreover, the reform had no significant differential impact on employment terminations …

, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. The first section presents a summary of the economic and institutional … section presents some theoretical considerations on the relationship between the social protection system, tax wedge, non-employment … and finally, shadow employment. The third section contains an attempt to econometrically estimate the magnitude of the …

This paper evaluates the effects of a fall in payroll taxes on employment and wages in the presence of high labor … formality. The model suggests that the reform would increase total employment by between 0.3 to 0.5 percent and formal … employment by between 3.4 to 3.7 percent over the pre-reform scenario. In addition, formal wage rates would increase by 4 …

to establish a pre-pandemic employment trend and attribute any difference from this trend to the estimated effect of the … pandemic on employment outcomes. We find mixed impacts of the pandemic on Indonesia's labor market. While the pandemic has … reduced the gender gap in employment participation due to the "added worker effect" among women, it has also lowered overall …

Using Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data, after making appropriate adjustments, we estimate that employment in … the previous eight years, the average rate of fall in employment in informal manufacturing was about 0.5 per cent per year …. Using PLFS data on employment and earnings, we estimate that nominal GVA in India’s unorganized manufacturing fell by 14 …

employment. In particular, unskilled and semi-skilled workers are likely to bear a disproportionate share of the adjustment costs …. Automation will probably be a more dangerous threat for equality than for overall employment. …

on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay …-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially delimited areas, bringing Ghana's major metropolitan centres to a standstill … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts …