might affect employment in different ways. A policy shift toward a low-carbon green economy may create new and additional … crowding out of employment in other sectors. In addition, energy prices may increase owing to feed-in tariffs subsidizing …

economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women’s access to quality employment, a …

employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for … female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit …, neutralize, or even reduce employment. And increasing the coverage of overtime pay regulations has little effect on the share of …

€”usually adverse—effects, understanding the difficulties in using it to manage employment is important for economic policy. …

Fixed-term contracts have become a major form of employment in Europe. Available evidence about whether temporary jobs … are a stepping stone to a permanent employment or are a dead end is mixed. The usefulness of these jobs depends on the … institutional and economic environment. Fixed-term contracts can be a pathway from unemployment to employment, but their potential …

employment, especially in sectors exposed to trade and intensive in labor. The limited empirical evidence suggests that the …