The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean … countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth … to major sources of labor market determinants, in the long and short run. The main determinants of employment include …

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 …

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

replaced the United States UE with employment (EM) for the years 1977 to 2021 and examined how employment changed relative to … "jobless recovery" is that employment should not increase more rapidly than the real economy. …