This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …

. Unfortunately, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor …As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get … unemployment and unmet job expectations are alarming. Consequently, this paper provides a framework that cuts across sectors and …

structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the …This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on … trend has emerged: a rise in the share of public sector employment along with higher conditional returns to public sector …

This paper provides a critique of the ``unemployment invariance hypothesis,'' according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth models, we show that the labor market alone need not contain all …