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Labor market reform options to boost employment in South Africa

Duval, Romain; Ji, Yi; Shibata, Ippei - 2021

Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised the...

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Minimum Wages and Firm Employment : Evidence from China

Huang, Yi - 2014

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the 2000-2007 periods. Using a novel dataset of minimum wage regulations across more than 2,800 counties matched with firm-level data, we investigate both the effect of the minimum...

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Countercyclical fiscal policy and gender employment gap : evidence from the G-7 countries

Akitoby, Bernardin; Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki - 2019

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … supporting aggregate demand and improving gender gaps …

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The minimum wage puzzle in less developed countries : reconciling theory and evidence

Adam, Christopher S.; Buffie, Edward F. - 2020

We show that a dynamic general equilibrium model with efficiency wages and endogenous capital accumulation in both the formal and (non-agricultural) informal sectors can explain the full range of confounding stylized facts associated with minimum wage laws in less developed countries

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A European minimum wage : implications for poverty and macroeconomic imbalances

Detragiache, Enrica; Ebeke, Christian; Jirasavetakul, … - 2020

A hypothetical European Minimum Wage (MW) set at 60 percent of each country's median wage would reduce in-work poverty but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment, higher prices, and a loss of social insurance benefits...

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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2019

Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...

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Trade, jobs, and inequality

Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import...

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Minimum wages and firm employment : evidence from China

Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - 2014

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Deconstructing Job Creation

Garibaldi, Pietro - 1999

This paper studies net employment growth across 21 OECD economies in 1980-97, focusing on experiences within the European Union. It finds that sectoral effects can only partially account for differences in job creation. By contrast, it shows that a policy package including low taxation and...

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Gender equality and inclusive growth

Fernández, Raquel; Isakova, Asel; Luna, Francesco; … - 2021

This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to … promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and … negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal …

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