compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …

bottom firms catching up with top firms in the Republic of Korea and the richest EU countries. Regarding employment and labor … skills, employment growth has generally been quite stagnant in all regions. Labor skills, for which we use the wage premium …. Our test of the productivity−employment link indicates that the size of employment tends to have a greater impact on …

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … higher average wages; thus any relatively slower employment growth in this group of firms could lead to lower inequality …

they consider lower wages and higher wage dispersion major prerequisites for stronger employment growth. The theoretical … the downward pressure on wages and led to rising income inequality. Many German economists welcomed this effect, because …

moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that … idiosyncratic risk increases during contractions in the labour market. Furthermore, we find evidence of insurance, both at the … household level and in the form of public insurance. However, private and public insurance mechanisms against an increase in …

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …