Employment Analysis and Research (EMP/ANALYSIS) resources
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  1. The Labour Markets of Emerging Economies: Has growth translated into more and better jobs?

    15 May 2013

    This volume focuses on the labour market situation, trends and regulations in emerging economies, devoting attention to how they have dealt with both short-term issues, namely the global financial crisis, and longer-term structural challenges − as well as the gaps that still remain.

  2. Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development

    01 March 2013

    Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development seeks to provide a comprehensive, but non-technical, coverage of labour market issues in a developing country context to help policy-makers and other readers improve their capacity to understand these topics and develop appropriate and effective policy responses. This book is an invaluable reference for policy-makers in middle- and low-income countries as well as an ideal handbook for teachers and students of economics and development.

  3. Diverging trends in unemployment in the United States and Europe: Evidence from Okun's law and the global financial crisis

    21 December 2011

    This paper presents estimates of Okun’s coefficients for a number of developed countries, and shows that there is considerable variation across countries, which captures the heterogeneity in the responsiveness of unemployment to the global financial crisis. The paper also looks at the relationship between these coefficients and labour market institutions.

  4. Labour market policies in times of crisis

    30 August 2009

    Employment Working Paper No. 35

  5. The employment effects of North-South trade and technological change

    01 June 2008

    Employment Working Paper No. 22

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