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Employment rate of Romanies is very low in Central and Eastern Europe. In Hungary, it is less than half of the national average. The gap emerged in the early years of the post-communist transition and slightly widened ...

Empirical fndings as well as theoretical predictions in the marriage bargaining literature suggest that women's fnancial independence has a positive effect on their empowerment. Findings in the domestic violence literature, ...

The recent growth experience in India highlights the role of skill-based service sector and productivity improvement rather than a significant rise in physical capital accumulation. In this context we study the possible ...

We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms ...

We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike ...

In this paper we analyze whether the employment/productivity profile of growth as wellas its sectoral pattern matter for poverty reduction. We also identify some conditions of the labor market which are associated with ...

Using a simple two-firm, two-period model, we analyze for a developing economy the process of ‘entrepreneurial entry,’ that is, entry by new firms into an industry that did not previously exist in that country, focusing ...

Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in ...

Previous studies of job creation and job destruction (JCJD) have found that the gross job reallocation rate greatly exceeded the net job creation rate even in a narrowly defined industry or the same international trade ...

This paper investigates how employment regulations affect firms’ use of more flexible employment arrangements. Using firm level data from 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia the paper not only looks at ...