environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance … to electricity are found to explain a significant part of the lack of employment growth in MENA firms compared to their …

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 … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …

elastic around the minimum wage for small changes in employment. The model is calibrated for France and used to estimate the … output and employment effects induced by two recent tax reforms: the Crédit d’Impôt pour la Compétitivité et l’Emploi (CICE … potential output and potential employment …

employment and reducing duality are likely to be considerable in the medium term …

Serbia) are characterized by some of the highest unemployment and low employment rates in Europe. We analyze the poor labor …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … negative impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum … wage on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …

decline given population aging. This paper’s measure of the “employment gap” also suggests that labor market slack remains and … employment. In addition, given the continued downward pressure on the LFPR, labor supply measures will be an essential component …

Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends …