recession and in its aftermath, including the sharp decline in labor force participation and informal employment that is unique … technologies introduced at the trough of the recession bolsters the recovery of GDP, total employment, and labor income, and leads … to a larger expansion in the share of formal employment compared to the no-policy scenario. In the long run, the economy …

output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we … find that states with more inflexible labour regulations have witnessed slower growth in employment and output in …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …

While the relationship between business cycles and employment is a topic of continuing interest, it has received … setting, controlling for other characteristics. Using data from Brazil’s monthly PME employment surveys between 2002 and 2016 …, regressions are estimated to assess how business cycles affect employment in specific demographic groups. The results provide …

. We effectively compare employment changes in each part of the wage distribution in low-wage areas to employment changes … spillovers up to around the 20th percentile of wages. Overall we find small negative effects on employment which are not … incomes are very sensitive to the size of employment effects. …

-level employment decisions. In contrast, the paper documents rapid and substantial employment adjustments through hires and separations …

sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued …

study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition have negatively affected manufacturing and nontradable employment. Some workers were pushed into …