employment losses and gains during the peak COVID-19 years compared with pre-pandemic levels. As part of its work on the impact … of the pandemic on informal workers, the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) network … separate analysis of South African data on employment losses and gains during COVID-19 (see Rogan and Skinner 2022). This paper …

former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry … Demonstration (TJRD). The analysis assesses the effects of these programs on employment and recidivism. We find that the programs in … both studies led to a large increase in employment driven by the transitional jobs themselves. However, the programs did …

economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small … of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …

different impacts by gender, sector, and status in employment. The findings show that both relative and absolute job losses have … been greater in the informal economy, while the rate and level of recovery have been greater for formal employment. Further …