How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of … Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of … "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects of the Lewisian development process. In fast-growing countries with …

In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend …

1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

production and patterns of employment, with important consequences on task composition of occupations. This paper has utilized … suggests that investing in education should be the highest priority, with greater emphasis on skillbiased training programmes …

employment in the nonprimary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender …

nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …

in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made … them. In this paper we thus provide a summary of the main sources of data on earnings and employment and their strengths …