, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. … recession and in its aftermath, including the sharp decline in labor force participation and informal employment that is unique … technologies introduced at the trough of the recession bolsters the recovery of GDP, total employment, and labor income, and leads …

This paper examines age- and gender-specific employment sensitivity to growth across different economic sectors. By …-, gender-, and sector-specific employment intensities to growth. Our study examines the ability of growth in different sectors … to generate total employment opportunities. Results show that regardless of gender or age, the employment growth is …

unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty. They also analyse country …The annual Global Employment Trends reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic upswings. I show that this is … mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed … persons have a relatively high propensity to become entrepreneurs out of necessity because they do not find paid employment. I …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …