availability of STEM workforce should (or not) be regarded as a growth restriction for the Brazilian ICT sector. Results point out …

potential effect that age composition of a firm's workforce may have on a firm's employment growth. The study applies a linked … that, on average, employment growth slows down as the average age of the workforce increases. … macroeconomic level but also affect microeconomic issues such as a firm's growth and workforce. This exploratory study realises a …

We analyze how a worker's severe health shock affects the employment and health behavior of their older coworkers. We … more likely to receive special bonus payments after leaving the firm. The employment effects are larger when the health …

In 2019, the rate of decline in the workforce soared: in Q1, it shrank by nearly 0.8m on the corresponding quarter of …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … formal sector. Yet the dual structure is not balanced in the same way in all three countries. Most of the self-employment … small at all levels in Brazil. -- Self-employed ; salary work ; informal sector ; earnings differential ; quantile …

between business cycles and (un)employment or participation rates has received limited attention in the literature on … different age, education, and ethnic groups by gender using monthly data from Brazil between 2002 and 2016 covering three … recessions. We document that large heterogeneities in the sensitivity of different demographic groups' (un)employment and …

analysis suggests that this cost-shifting policy implied significant positive e ects on employment and aggregate output …