This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … higher average wages; thus any relatively slower employment growth in this group of firms could lead to lower inequality …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

improve employment and income equality outcomes with no substantial impact on the overall risk of poverty. Nevertheless, the …-time employment …

adopted in 2010 and 2012. Based on cross-country panel regressions linking real export growth to employment protection …

estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east …, and for unskilled labor. The former result contradicts union claims that wages had little relevance for east German job …

sources of annual earnings growth: changes in employment time (number of weeks of employment within a year) and changes in … weekly earnings. Changes in employment time generate the tails of the earnings growth distribution, and account for the … risk, should separately account for the employment margin in their earnings process to avoid erroneous conclusions. We …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of sectoral employment and wages in the United States to changes in foreign … and wage levels. This paper estimates the impact of changes in both import and export prices on employment and wages in … most sectors, changes in trade prices do not have significant effects on employment and wages, although they generally have …

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … particularly large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …

The labor structure in sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by a high share of informal employment in the rural … agricultural sector. The impact of COVID-19 on female employment may not appear to be large as the share of such employment is …