This paper studies the association between a country's level of financial development and firms' employment growth. We … development affects the employment of firms with low managerial capital negatively, while firms with high managerial capital … Enterprise Performance Survey covering transition countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We use firm size as a proxy for …

This paper studies the association between a country's level of financial development and firms' employment growth. We … development affects the employment of firms with low managerial capital negatively, while firms with high managerial capital … Enterprise Performance Survey covering transition countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We use firm size as a proxy for …

credit. We find that, for employment, household access to bank loans matters more than firm access to bank loans. In addition …, consumer installment loans may have contributed significantly to the drop in employment in the manufacturing sector …

Firms adjust their employment to changes in output. But they tend to adjust it only partially. Typically, labor is … constraints increase the sensitivity of employment to fluctuations in output considerably. When output changes, financially …

stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition …Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap … positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were …

stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition …Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap … positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were …