This article is a study of the impacts of stabilisation, structural adjustment and foreign capital inflows on the accumulation pattern, factor distribution, employment pattern, output composition, and labour productivity as experienced in the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s. It also evaluates...

This paper analyzes the differential employment impacts on women and men brought about by the East Asian crisis and the preceeding periods of boom-bust cycles and increased openness. It is found that the growth period in the second half of the 1980s favored male employment more than female...

We investigate the claim that national labor markets have become more globally interconnected in recent decades. We do so by deriving estimates over time of three different notions of interconnection: (i) the share of labor demand that is export induced (i.e., all labor demand created by foreign...

We investigate the claim that national labor markets have become more globally interconnected in recent decades. We do so by deriving estimates over time of three different notions of interconnection: (i) the share of labor demand that is export induced (i.e., all labor demand created by foreign...

We show that Autor and Salomons' (2017, 2018) analysis of the impact of technical progress on employment growth is problematic. When they use labor productivity growth as a proxy for technical progress, their regressions are quasi-accounting identities that omit one variable of the identity....