We augment the standard asymmetric learning model with costly effort. With this adjustment, wages become fully informative of employee productivity, rather than merely reflective of public signals. Further, strategies designed to mask employee quality, commonly seen in standard models, become...

This research attempts to make a brief review and analysis of youth unemployment rate in the labour market in Bulgaria. It briefly describes programmes and measures existing at the Bulgarian labour market and implemented though Employment Promotion Act and National Employment Action Plan. It...

The article presents the implementation of the project for establishing Centres for Employment and Social Assistance in Bulgaria in the period 2015-2017 as a model of the provision of integrated employment and social assistance services aiming at increasing the efficiency of coordination and...

Youth unemployment and underemployment are serious concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, especially given the region’s young population. The barriers young people face stem both from skills deficiencies and from weak fundamentals that constrain job creation more generally in the region. Employment...

Using longitudinal data from the Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation in the local area level of radiation fallout from the Chernobyl accident...

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher education and are therefore not available for work (education...

We examine the employment of cocaine-using homeless persons, all with non-psychotic mental disorders, who participated in one of four separate randomized controlled clinical trials that offered treatments with various combinations of day treatment counseling, subsidized work therapy, or...

This paper analyses the probabilities of employment retention and re-entry by older workers, focusing on older women whose representation in the workforce is growing as the population ages but whose employment outcomes have been under-researched compared to older men. We find that older women...

This paper develops a projection of the Spanish aggregate participation rate between 2004 and 2020. We construct independent projections by nationality and gender using micro-data from the Labour Force Survey (1977-2004). When estimating the participation of individuals with Spanish citizenship...

It is the popular belief that employment growth should have been at an equal pace with the growth of Manufacturing industry in India post major economic reforms in 1991, but number of studies show that it has not been so. Though it’s seen that employment has indeed increased post 1991 reforms...