Botswana. The IMF report analyzes that large public employment significantly affect labor market outcomes in middle …

enough to raise employment rates, and lackluster real earnings along with still-rampant labor market informality suggest that … most of the new jobs are of low quality. Low real wages and low labor force participation suggest the need of raising …

We build a small open economy, real business cycle model with labor market frictions to evaluate the role of employment … effect by which inefficient jobs are destroyed in recessions. In a quantitative version of the model calibrated to the … significant change in aggregate employment. …

relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of …Unemployment has remained high in the Philippines, at almost twice the level of neighboring countries, despite … rapid population growth and increased labor force participation. This paper shows that Philippine employment growth and …

Denmark showed strong performance owing to its stability-oriented policies, high growth rates, and low unemployment …

employment growth. The unemployment rate has dipped below the euro area average, and hovers near estimates of the structural … unemployment rate. …

JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores … the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of … increases in unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions …