politically connected firms hurt aggregate growth? The paper identifies the growth effects of the entry of politically connected …. The entry of connected firms into new, modern, and previously unconnected sectors slows aggregate employment growth and …

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross …-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor … manufacturing and export manufacturing growth. Within Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico, the effects of different sectoral growth …

growth of firms and distort the allocation of resources away from better-performing firms, hence reducing their potential for … job creation. The paper uses data from 41,000 firms across 119 countries to examine the drivers of firm growth, with a …

This paper estimates the impacts of world agricultural trade liberalization on wages, employment and unemployment in … Argentina, a country with positive net agricultural exports and high unemployment rates. In the estimation of these wage and … unemployment responses, the empirical model allows for individual labor supply responses and for adjustment costs in labor demand …

nearly three-quarters of gross domestic product growth between 2006 and 2013. During the period, the private sector … contributed 71 percent of services and accounted for 84 percent of its contribution to growth. The dynamism of private services is … services, they accounted for nearly half (48 percent) of the contributions of private services to growth during the period …

employment, promoting inclusive growth, and improving competitiveness. In the short run, weakened macroeconomic fundamentals in … achieve sustainable growth that delivers the quantity and quality of jobs needed. An inclusive and competitive private sector … framework to diagnose and identify key challenges to the growth of small and medium enterprises that is supported by a …

Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have … not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless … growth." The author addresses the causes of this phenomenon in the CIS-7. He argues that the lack of job creation is …