-economy business cycles tend to be shallower in advanced economies than in EMDEs. Informal employment in both advanced economies and …

fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …

not allow to analyse spatial interdependence. In our approach, instead, we make use of local employment patterns. In … particular, using sectoral employment of 8091 Italian municipalities across 18 economic activities, our approach allows to … identify spatial inter-linkages in terms of employment patterns. By comparing such local employment patterns, our methodology …