employment declined. The latter has raised doubt regarding desirability of policy reforms.This paper provides an explanation of … the employment decline that sheds light on the manner in which product market reforms have impacted upon the labour market. …

We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … datasets for a large cross-sector of developing and advanced countries.  Regressions of either private-sector employment rates … or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out.  This means that high rates …

We present a theoretical as well as empirical analysis of the impact of employment regulations on permanent and … temporary employment. We consider three different forms of such regulations, namely insider protection, fixed term contract … the employment performances of those countries. Moreoever, these institutions act asymmetrically along the business cycle …

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether … increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer …

Labour force participation in India is found to respond to a plurality of causal mechanisms. Employment and unpaid … curve of female employment by education levels. Many women at the bottom of the U are doing extra-domestic work, so a …-domestic work (and are more likely to be `inactive`) than women in other cultural groups. Economic poverty causes employment to be …

This paper gives a selected review of some of the work on poverty mobility, largely based on recent research. The … literature is vast and many interesting suggestive findings have emerged. Most evidence points to the importance of household … revisits this evidence. However, in analyzing poverty mobility, it is not self-evident to move from describing the correlates …

A multinomial choice framework is used to investigate the nature of women`s transitions between full-time employment …, part-time employment and non-employment. The stochastic framework allows time varying and time invariant unobserved … state dependence is found in both full-time employment. This finding is robust to the specification of unobserved …